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[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago

Me: Is that true?

Search a little

Me: Oh my god...

[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/fish/tough-teeth-and-parrotfish-poop

In a year, one large parrotfish can produce 1,000 pounds (450 kg) of sand, the weight of a baby grand piano.

Most of the sand comes from waves sloshing onto rocks though, right? right?

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

most of the sand is eroded inland and deposited by rivers

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thank fuck for that!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Depends entirely on where you're at. Our coastal beaches are pure white and sound like popcorn (fish eating) when you're underwater near coral.

The beaches along the rivers can be brown sand, washed down as you say, but some are pebbles instead. Never understood how two rivers so close together ended up with such different beaches.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

I had never thought about the reproductive cycles of grand pianos, fascinating

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Whales eat the bones into sand

https://youtu.be/UO1Kcxahjdo

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ya know that sound that you can hear under the water at white sand beaches? Sound like sand being ground through a bearing? Or a neck joint pressurizing? Yeah, that's the parrot fish... happily eating away.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

Being able to live of coral? Did you forget an “F”?

[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago

There. I ixed it. 👇😃

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

You are the best “F”-r

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Oh, thank you. 🤗
I’m trying to carve out a little niche for myself. Glad to find you in that niche. 🖐️🤓

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Definitely should have been "live off coral".

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Dammit. I always make that mistake. 😣
The grammar checker also shrugs at this. 🤷‍♂️

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

I laughed a little too hard at this, because I just don’t love the beach. Felt like I should send it to my friends who are beach nuts, but looked down at my toast with honey I was eating and realized how much we enjoy things that are made by the excretion of other creatures.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The animals are full of surprises. 🤯

this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2025
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