#devilsholepupfish — Public Fediverse posts

A tiny desert #fish hits a 25 year population high in one of Earth’s harshest environments https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/a-tiny-desert-fish-hits-a-population-high-in-one-of-earths-harshest-environments/

"The critically endangered #DevilsHolePupfish population has reached a 25-year high of 191 fish, offering hope for the species that lives in the smallest known habitat of any vertebrate... the population in #DeathValley has fluctuated dangerously in the past, dropping as low as 35 in 2013."

#FlashFloods May Support One of the World’s Rarest Fish https://eos.org/articles/flash-floods-may-support-one-of-the-worlds-rarest-fish

"Only a few hundred #DevilsHolePupfish live in an isolated pool in the #desert, where occasional floodwaters roil their habitat... The #fish have a tangled relationship with the sediment that #floods add to their natural fishbowl... Floods disturb the ecosystem in the short term but could generate a greater food source for the #pupfish in the long run."

I wanted to post this for just good news. But life is only giving me lemons this year.

The good is we've seen the highest count of Devil's Hole Pupfish in a quarter of a century! And I have a pin! And you can also have this pin. I love fish and everyone should love them too.

I also am now buried in vet bills after - a place- took advantage of me. So shopping appreciated.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1605651676/moonrise-enamel-pin-endangerd-fish-delta

#enamelpins #endangeredanimals #fish #deltasmelt #DevilsHolePupfish #goldenskiffia #humanart

Against all odds, the rare #DevilsHolePupfish keeps on swimming https://www.npr.org/2023/07/07/1182118098/against-all-odds-the-rare-devils-hole-pupfish-keeps-on-swimming

"This small, #iridescent blue-or-green #fish swims in the hot waters of an #inhospitable fishbowl made of rock in a #Nevada section of #DeathValley National Park, where it somehow got trapped thousands of years ago.

The deep #cavern that is this fish's only home is surrounded by a chain-link fence, razor wire, and other security measures designed to protect this incredibly rare #EndangeredSpecies."

Endangered #DevilsHolePupfish is one of the most inbred animals known https://phys.org/news/2022-11-endangered-devils-hole-pupfish-inbred.html

"Confined to a single deep limestone cave in #Nevada's #MojaveDesert, 263 of them live in water that hovers around 93F/34C year-round, with food resources so scarce that they are always on the edge of starvation, and with oxygen levels so low that most other #fish would die immediately. The #pupfish, Cyprinodon diabolis, live in the smallest habitat of any known vertebrate."