Now, you’ve probably pondered whether the perfect photobomb exists. Well, a photo posted on Twitter confirms our suspicions of this statement, featuring a fisherman, a fish, and a Labrador retriever.
The Featured Fish
The fish captured in the photo is a brown trout.
Brown trout are one of the most genetically diverse vertebrates, surpassing the human race.
They have between 38 and 42 chromosomes, whereas humans humans only have 23. They can live up to 20 years, but many males die after spawning.
Habitat
Brown trout are found around northern Norway and White Sea tributaries in Russia in the Arctic Ocean to the Atlas Mountains in North Africa.
They are stream resident populations, typically found in high-altitude streams and sometimes large rivers, lakes, and ponds.
Diet
These fish are opportunistic carnivores that eat aquatic insects, small fish, snails, and worms.
The larger the fish get, the larger their prey becomes, often indulging in small mammals, frogs, and mollusks.
Breeding
Breeding occurs in autumn or early winter.
A typical female trout will produce around 2,000 per kg of body weight when spawning!
The eggs need constant cold, clean, and oxygen-rich water.
Spawning often occurs in gravel beds in rivers or streams in the wild.
The Perfect Photobomb
The photo shows a fisherman smiling at the camera, hands outstretched as if holding something (i.e., the brown trout), unaware of the scene around him.
On the left, a brown trout has managed to jump out of the fisherman’s hands and is frozen in mid-air.
On the right, the fisherman’s dog’s full attention is on the brown trout.
Photos like this remind one of the intricate ways that animals and humans co-exist, sometimes resulting in perfect photobombs and comical encounters that one can laugh about later.
I hope you enjoyed reading about this perfect photobomb.
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I spent my childhood in Scotland. In 2014, my family and I traveled around the world for 5 months, and ever since, I have had a passion for nature, adventuring, photography and videography. I am currently working towards a BSc in Biodiversity and Ecology at Stellenbosch University to go on to specialise in Marine Sciences one day.
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