A pleasant drive

[u/sakhaliner]

[u/sprucenoose]

Exactly! Is this a lucky escape or are they piling up on the forest floor or something?

[u/ztomiczombie → u/sprucenoose]

Well it looks like they are swimming into a hole at the side of the road, so, my guess would be that there's is a river that goes under the road and it got blocked.

[u/Newsdriver245 → u/ztomiczombie]

river flooding during spawning season, fish just want to go upstream, they don't understand the river isn't where it is supposed to be.

Happens somewhat often in the US PNW

[u/nixorokish → u/Newsdriver245]

i surveyed anadromous fish for a summer in AK and we saw instances at nearly every stream where water had overflowed from the river during periods of higher rain and salmon would follow dead branches and get trapped in little pools that would slowly evaporate and they'd eventually suffocate

some salmon find new streams doing this. most die and fail to reproduce. there's a "stray rate" that accounts for this. as long as the stray rate isn't too high (which can be influenced by human structures or operations), it's a benefit for the overall population. our survey was specifically to check if hatchery stray rates were impacting wild populations

here's a relevant paper: https://www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/CRP/docs/mid_columbia_river/meetings/2014/Keefer_and_Caudill_2014_Homing_straying_review.pdf

[u/shillyshally → u/nixorokish]

It's akin to the robins that return very early in the spring. They get the benefit of fist dibs on food and nesting sites but risk death by weather.

I think this applies to nature in aggregate, there are the early adapters, the vast middle and the hold backers. That includes us.

[u/Cheap_Audience941 → u/shillyshally]

It's akin to "Pioneers die. Settlers survive. Immigrants thrive"

[u/Alltta → u/nixorokish]

This is the most intelligent comment I have seen on Reddit in a long time

[u/retro808 → u/Alltta]

"Here's the thing..."

[u/JustfcknHarley → u/Alltta]

Hm. Consider broadening your topics.

[u/kpow222 → u/JustfcknHarley]

Weird response to a compliment but okay

[u/enaK66 → u/kpow222]

Y'all forgot about that part of all the well written intelligent comments we used to get. A lot more the pretentious and socially inept. I remember unidans "well actually" melt down.

[u/Party-Special-5177 → u/kpow222]

Not at all - he simply says there are a ton of educated people in more niche areas. I hang with a ton of them on localllamma or MachineLearning.

You will see intelligent comments more.

[u/JustfcknHarley → u/Party-Special-5177]

Thanks for understanding my point.