All About Water People
The ray fish were pretty like Batman. They went through the water so smoothly. Sharks were there but maybe they had lost their teeth, we did not see any on them. The ribbon sea dragons were all hiding because the water had turned off their fire. They would come out and play with the sea horses sometimes though.
by Utkrishta Mulmi
Photographs by two famous photographers on the loose in New York. Rajendra Mulmi and Sagun Basnet.
What do you mean fishes and turtles are not people? I am sure, they would say weeee are NOT people. So for the time being we will say all that live are peeeeple. And yesterday, my father sent me a bunch of photos and videos of these water people in an aquarium that he went to during his visit of the US.
What do you mean fishes and turtles are not people? I am sure, they would say weeee are NOT people. So for the time being we will say all that live are peeeeple. And yesterday, my father sent me a bunch of photos and videos of these water people in an aquarium that he went to during his visit of the US.
Now don’t ask me where in
the US. He was in DC, New York, Florida and other places also I bet, so the
aquarium could have been anywhere.
Now back to the fish
peeeeeple. The fishes that he shared with me were actually in their natural
habitats. Remember the piranha experiment we did in Nepal?
When Pallav sir saw the
photos and videos, he said well, we could do a little sharing with everyone and
we had a great time looking at the photos and videos at school. In their
natural habitats were the Piranha, Ranger fish, seahorse, ribboned sea dragon,
starfish, shark, rays, emperor penguins, and stonefish.
Eena: Now talking about
Piranhas, remember the Piranha study that we did at school? Our fish delivery
guy gave us a fish saying that it was from a river in Nepal (not true) and it
was very tasty. Pallav sir said, it belonged to the Piranha family. Utu
researched the fish and said it was a Pacu to begin with. He was pretty sure so
Pallav sir also said, lookie lookie, Pacu have human like teeth. So we all
discussed about the Pacu in theory and then Pallav sir tried to open the fish’s
mouth to show us the human teeth and got poked in the finger by the teeth which
were really sharp. Pacu is supposed to have teeth like Utu (or us humans). So
HIS Pacu turned out to be a Piranha, a close cousin and definitely a chicken
burger loving, meat eating Piranha!
He had sent me exotic
fishes of Australia and Rio Negro. Many of the ones from Australia Eena had not
even seen and she was in Australia for many years. We saw a white crocodile which was pretty
cool. The sea horse was the size of a coke can, I wish I could ride a sea horse
and go exploring in the deep. Or maybe like we could do a “He’ll be coming
round the sea Mountain when he comes!” I could have like have a million sea
horses pulling me about.
The ray fish were pretty like Batman. They went through the water so smoothly. Sharks were there but maybe they had lost their teeth, we did not see any on them. The ribbon sea dragons were all hiding because the water had turned off their fire. They would come out and play with the sea horses sometimes though.
The star fish were great
and Baba and his friends were allowed to touch them and the sea anemone. They
were not allowed to eat them though. And it was a great idea not to put the
piranha in there because, I don’t think they would have followed the rules.
More likely, they could have bitten my cousin brother Nibu as he dipped his
finger in the water to touch the star fish and the anemone.
It was really nice of my
father to send me those photos and share his experiences with us. We spent a
couple of hours look and discussing and further researching what we
watched.
All my friends want to say
a big THANK YOOOOOOOU! Me also, of course.
Eena: Hello, sorry that we
have woken you up in the middle of the night [That was Utu, instead of opening
the file on Skype, he dialled his dad at 2 am]. But I just wanted to say thank
you for sharing the videos and pictures with us, I liked seeing the corridor
that had the glass ceiling with the rays ;-).
Vidheha: I liked the
sharks, horsy fish, and penguins. Thank you for the video.
Shila: I liked the fish
that was good at hide and seek, it’s called the sea dragon I learned.
Tina: I liked the starfish
and I want to touch it as well some day.
Anita: Thank you. We
enjoyed this class. I liked the seahorse very much.
Bishesh: I liked the Piranhas.
I like eating them too. Thank you.
Me: hello and I want to
come to America now! And I want to replace the girl in the penguin habitat when
I come. I loved the rays and the sharks.
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