It was revealed how a mysterious picture appeared on the skin of a blue marlin recently caught in the Philippines
A photo of a marlin with a tattoo on his back in the form of pictures and inscriptions, posted on the Internet, has gained millions of views in a short time. Naturally, people wondered: where did the picture come from? There were witnesses who saw her, as they say, alive. And they assured me: no photomontage.
The experts wondered what this meant?
A tattoo is intricate, to make one you have to try hard. That is, to spend a lot of energy for a joke. If someone really decided to make an original joke like this. Although, according to experts, traditional tools are not suitable for making a tattoo on the skin of a fish - some other are needed. And in general, it is not known whether in principle it is possible to get a tattoo on a fish.
The place where the marlin was caught
Ufologists got excited - they suggested that the fish were brought with them by aliens. And she herself is an alien.
The mystery was revealed only the other day, when Zosimo Tano, a 41-year-old fisherman who caught a tattooed marlin, made a statement.
The fishermen were not very surprised by the tattoo - they are poorly educated people
Zosimo told ABS-CBN News that he sold this very marlin weighing 24 kilograms for $ 3 60 per kilogram. Sold "tattooed" - the "tattoo" did not bother the buyer. Only she was not a tattoo in the literal sense of the word. That is, no one stuffed it. The picture, according to the fisherman, appeared after he covered the marlin with his wet T-shirt. After some time, a pattern appeared on the skin of the fish, which was on the T-shirt. Obviously imprinted.
Promotional video:
The fisherman showed Mike as proof of his words.
Fisherman's T-shirt - its design is imprinted on the skin of the fish
And here is the fisherman in the same T-shirt - he washed it and went fishing again
The local Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) confirmed that the picture was the result of a chemical reaction that occurred between the paint from Zosimo's shirt and the skin of the fish. Experts promised to figure out the nature of this reaction.
REFERENCE
Blue or blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) is a representative of the ray-finned fish family from the order of perchiformes. Males reach a weight of 160 kilograms, are colored dark blue on the back, silver on the sides. They have a spear-shaped snout and a hard dorsal fin, swim quickly, accelerating to 110, or even 130 kilometers per hour.
It looks like a blue marlin
Marlin was dragged out of the water by the protagonist of Ernest Hemingway's story The Old Man and the Sea.
Blue marlin meat is considered a delicacy.
Vladimir LAGOVSKY