
Another fascinating allbeit smaller sea creature also made a splash for Adrian Rodgers:
Hi Cliff ,
Had a large sunfish at Strumble this evening , it breached 3 times. I haven't seen this before but i think others have, as far as i can remember.
Adrian
Yep Sunfish do breach although of course anyone who has seen one of these wierd disk shaped seemingly tailless creatures will find it hard to believe! In effect they heave themselves out of the water flexing their bodies and using their long flipper like anal and dorsal fins to add leverage to fling themselves horizontally out of the water. This can result in multiple leaps that I have described ; "as being like a dimented tiddleywink". Wikkipedia describes the ones we see here as "outside of their normal range" but we have been seeing them reasonably frequently from July into October since the 1970's.
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