Summary and Response of the article “Behold The Blobfish” The article “ Behold The Blobfish” by Fraus Lidz is about the basic facts of the blobfish. The fish is found in Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans at depths from 330 to 9.200 feet. It’s known as the blobfish because out of water, it’s limp, soft and flabby. The fish belong to the psychrolutidae family which contains whether fatheads or fathead sculpins. Unlike other fish, blobfish have no swim bladder which is a gas-filled organ that give fish the ability to control its buoyancy, the tendency to float in water or air. Blobfish is considered as the ugliest animal in the planet. The article is also reflect human behavior toward animals. Biologist Simon Watt said that humans tend …show more content…
We do care and respect all different kind of animals, even the the ugliest animal like blobfish. However, people are limited. There are billion different kind of animals and people can’t help them all. Cats and dogs are pets. In other word, they are home animal which mean that they need help from the people in order to survive. Monkeys, lions, elephants, snakes, etc are wild animals which means that they dangerous, and they also have the ability to find their own food without people’s help. In the article said that we need to respect blobfish and I think we already did. There’s no report saying that people try to get rid of blobfish, instead we are encourage to leave them alone in the ocean because they’re wild fish. I personally believe that blobfish exist before human which means that they don’t need help from the people and can still survive plus blobfish is not in the endangered level. Tiger has the highest endangered level which extremely need to protect. People do protect wild animal like tiger even though they are dangerous. I also believe that human is an animals, but the difference is that human are smarter than other animals. That does not mean that we are responsible to protect endangered animals. Therefore, we only care for animals that we considered adorable and animals that need help from the