The ocean sunfish or mola mola is doing its best to survive. However, Scout Burns made a now-viral Facebook post that said it shouldn’t even exist in the first place. In her rant, Burns explained why she believes the sunfish to be the world’s most useless creature, saying that, “God must have accidentally dropped while washing dishes one day and shrugged his shoulders at because no one could have imagined this would happen.”
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As VICE pointed out, it’s understandable why someone would think so little of the sunfish. The mola mola has many nicknames — schwimmender kopf (“swimming head”) in German, putol (“cut short”) in the Philippines, and “toppled car fish” in Taiwan—belie its absurd reputation — and they’re not doing it any good, too. That last one is an especially accurate insult, since the mola mola grows to roughly the size and shape of a trash-compacted car.
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The comment section below Burns’ rant was full of praises
However, not everyone agreed with her
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David Masad asked a biologist friend what they thought about the post. The response was as intense as the rant itself.
“[She] has no idea what she’s talking about!” The text began. Furthermore, the biologist explained that any animal that eats mainly jellyfish is helping the environment, because overfishing of the ocean has led to a huge increase in the amount of squidgy jelly animals. They even fact-checked all of Burns’ arguments. Turns out, sunfish aren’t drifters, and are active swimmers, controlling where they go with as much thrust as penguins. “Not bad for a 5,000-pound fish head with wings.”
Also, many fish lack swim bladders, not just sunfish. They do, however, have two sets of teeth.
Next, the biologist addressed Burns calling sunfish “clueless as f**k.”
“The fact that ocean sunfish utilize birds to rid them of parasites is actually quite clever,” the biologist said. Sunfish have also been proven to have learning behaviors, which means they can adapt to their changing surroundings (also smart).
The biologist concludes by saying Burns is “just a hateful, ill-informed, little (especially when compared to a sunfish) [woman]”.
Here’s what others said
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