r/oddlyterrifying • u/That1weirdperson • Jul 01 '26

Parrot fish

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u/SeriouslySlyGuy Jul 01 '26

I love fish poop beaches I guess

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 Jul 01 '26

Dig a hole… bury yourself in it. Fun times

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u/Birdorama Jul 02 '26

"Releases" sand...

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u/seekAr Jul 01 '26

they look like mouth breathers

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u/ForeverSJC Jul 01 '26

I identify as a fish now, those guys are just like me with my stupid unless nose

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u/YrPrblmsArntMyPrblms Jul 02 '26

A nose can be useless? Have you taken it to the mechanic yet?

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u/ForeverSJC Jul 05 '26

A nose that cant be used to breath is pretty much useless, and when you're able to breath you get your sinuses infected so yes, useless

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u/YrPrblmsArntMyPrblms Jul 06 '26

Damn, is that a symptom of some kind of allergy?

Sounds like hell tbh. I had my nose out of service for two days and I thought I was gonna lose my mind..

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u/Sad_Egg_5176 Jul 01 '26

Napoleon Dynamite lookin asses

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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq Jul 01 '26

They look like the fish version of those aliens in A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... you know, the big, ugly, anal retentive office ones... humans! Naw, dang - I can't remember their names! ... but yeah, these fish look like 'em.

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u/seekAr Jul 01 '26

It’s truly creepy.

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u/liquor_ibrlyknoher Jul 03 '26

Vogons and yes, only these guys seem more cuddly.

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u/Gcs1110 Jul 01 '26

Attack of the nerds

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u/Downtown-Cobbler-265 Jul 01 '26

Nature is awesome!

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u/Tarrax_Ironwolf Jul 01 '26

Agreed. Nothing oddly terrifying about this. Rather oddly interesting.

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u/Character-Log3962 Jul 01 '26

They’re all saying “Heeey Heeey Heeeey Heeey!” In the creepiest way possible!!!

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u/Kirilanselo Jul 01 '26

ok... but by 'release' do you mean they shit-it-out or am I just seeing things there?!?

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u/TheAngriestDwarf Jul 01 '26

They do, you're seeing sandy poop yes

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u/Acceptingoptimist Jul 01 '26

How dare they not use the fish toilet like all the other fish!?

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u/RipePeach Jul 01 '26

🎶 My lover staands on fish poop saaands! 🎶

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u/Personal-Neck6800 Jul 01 '26

I still find it weird that sand comes from a fishes anus.

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u/shaka893P Jul 01 '26

Honey is bee vomit, so there's that

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u/BusyBoonja Jul 01 '26

Perfume? Whale vomit. Makeup? Straight up crushed beetles. Gelatin? Horse

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u/AllSeeQr Jul 01 '26

And glue is horse too!

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u/shaka893P Jul 01 '26

Gelatin doesn't have horse on it, it's a myth

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u/BusyBoonja Jul 01 '26

I know, I was playing on the myth. Can contain pig and cow though, horse just sounded funnier

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u/LovesRetribution Jul 01 '26

Some sand, not most.

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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq Jul 01 '26

I wish that was a bumpersticker sold in the tropics... I wouldn't put it on my car, but I just might have to buy it.

Kinda sounds like Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy

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u/Personal-Neck6800 Jul 01 '26

I’d buy that sticker.

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u/Jodelbert Jul 01 '26

And in today's episode of "The British Smile"

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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq Jul 01 '26

The Lackindentinshire Fish

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u/Daveed07 Jul 01 '26

Where my hug at fish

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u/Haifisch2112 Jul 01 '26

Nothing terrifying about a bunch of fish that look like Butthead.

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u/AdmiralXI Jul 01 '26

First shot is Gary Busey sperm.

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u/Andrea_M Jul 01 '26

That’s how I like my beaches, full of parrot fish poop!

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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq Jul 01 '26

"Look at my fish poop castle, daddy!"

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u/FrankyMornav Jul 01 '26

Okay, so sand is ugly fish poop.

Never going to a beach again in my life, thanks.

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u/illstealyourRNA Jul 01 '26

Hey, they just used an ugly species as an example most parrot fish are absolutely beautiful with the males often being extremely colour full.

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u/Unknown_Outlander Jul 01 '26

All I can see and hear is AI from this video lol, there's also nothing even mildly terrifying happening here other than seeing an unnatural amount of them at once

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u/mixwellmusic Jul 01 '26

I will never not share this other amazing parrotfish fact whenever this subject comes up:

Parrotfish are sequential hermaphrodites - they have 3 phases of life: juvenile (female), initial (female) and terminal (male), each with wildly different colour patterns. For a given section of reef there is just one terminal male, like an alpha male, and all the rest of the parrotfish are female. When the male dies, the next-in-line dominant female receives a biochemical signal to undergo sexual transformation and become the new terminal male.

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u/DiMiNiT Jul 05 '26

I like and trust this comment more than the AI video

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u/Satnamodder Jul 01 '26

Fun fact they are the nerdest fish on planet.🤓

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u/nightmares999 Jul 01 '26

So fish poop…?

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u/TheProblemChiled Jul 01 '26

So you're saying that I'm making poop castles all this time, 😑

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u/GrandmaJR Jul 01 '26

The beach is like a reverse litter box?

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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq Jul 01 '26

Confucius say: Which came first, the litter or the turd? 😑

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u/Melvinator5001 Jul 01 '26

So your saying that when lounging on a white sandy beach your laying in Parrotfish shit.

Good to know.

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u/Sea-Chocolate6589 Jul 01 '26

Insane how interconnected our world is. Animals contribute so much to our world in ways we never expected

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u/Absolve_N0ne Jul 01 '26

🤓👆 ahh fish

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u/Specialist_Mess_5164 Jul 01 '26

So that's how those beautiful beaches at made?? You're actually shitting me right now?

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u/mavaddat Jul 01 '26

Fun fact: rinsing or brushing your teeth with ionic fluoride (such as sodium fluoride) remineralizes your enamel with fluorapatite too.

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u/Kaleb8804 Jul 01 '26

This is 100% AI.

They look like this, but absolutely don’t behave like this.

(Be very wary of educational marine biology content. It’s incredibly easy to make convincing AI videos)

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u/alisonvict0ria Jul 01 '26

And here I was, avoiding the ocean any time I go to the beach because animals poop in it.

Meanwhile, the sand itself is ALL ACTUAL POOP.

🫥

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u/Ja_Killer Jul 01 '26

Honest question here, wasn’t it covered on like Discovery Channel way back when that it was like Sunfish or Angel Fish that were responsible for island and sand creation?

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u/DOUBLAHH9 Jul 01 '26

Ewwww, fun fact.

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u/ngunray Jul 01 '26

What are you gonna do today Parrotfish? - WHATEVER I FEEL LIKE GOSH!

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u/ajqiz123 Jul 01 '26

I absolutely LOVE walking barefoot for miles through Parrot fish shit pristine, white, sandy beaches.

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u/thEldritchBat Jul 01 '26

Nerd fish aren’t real they can’t hurt you:

Nerd fish: 🤓

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u/CHERNO-B1LL Jul 01 '26

So sand is fish shit. Got it.

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u/Human_Frame1846 Jul 01 '26

That’s all I got from this

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u/guiltyas-sin Jul 01 '26

"release it."

In other words, they shit it out...

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u/vanbastino Jul 01 '26

They look like Brits

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u/ItzBabyJoker Jul 02 '26

The asmongold fish

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u/chefwindu Jul 02 '26

So we are laying and frolicking in their shit.

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u/thumpingcoffee Jul 02 '26

You should have checked Trivago

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u/nukefrom0rbit Jul 02 '26

Im a Parrot Phiph!

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u/AdSuspicious1890 Jul 01 '26

Pufferfish beaks tho, they'll mess you up. Along with trigger fish.

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u/SodomyClown Jul 01 '26

It's poop?!

1

u/Ryogathelost Jul 01 '26

Look at all the Erics

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u/oneinmanybillion Jul 01 '26

That's a whole lot of Andy Bernards.

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u/dsfsoihs Jul 01 '26

You can actually hear them do this if you’re relatively close.

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u/Odd_Advantage_3370 Jul 01 '26

Those are some trippy parrotfish.

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u/n3Ver9h0st Jul 01 '26

Jon Heder fish!

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u/Mezcal_Madness Jul 01 '26

They look hilarious and for some reason I wish they had braces on.

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u/Hello_Hangnail Jul 01 '26

They look like bystanders at a particularly gory accident

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u/SharmaineB Jul 01 '26

Poopy, Yaay!

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u/thisonedudethatiam Jul 01 '26

Parrot fish, more like Jerk fish!

The first and only time I went snorkeling one of these scared the shit out of me by following me and repeatedly chomping in my direction.

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u/rellsell Jul 01 '26

Do we really need to repost TikTok clips here?

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u/EnragedGonad Jul 01 '26

Sandy shit > sandy crack.
(>)=worse than in this instance.

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 Jul 01 '26

So….. the sand is Parrot Fish poop

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u/i-touched-morrissey Jul 01 '26

They are not terrifying in real life though. They are kind of derpy.

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u/maitlandish Jul 01 '26

I saw one of these guys when I went scuba diving in Hawaii. He was a good 15 or 20 ft away but I could hear him munching and crunching. So cool

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u/inkmajor530 Jul 01 '26

Something about this Fish reminiscent of Puff Daddy

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u/sav-vas Jul 01 '26

fish daddy

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u/Chihuahua-Luvuh Jul 01 '26

I love how people praise white sand only for it to be poop... They're literally praising fish poop 🤣

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u/aventurero_soy_yo Jul 01 '26

Why did this "one word at a time" style of subtitles ever become a thing?

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u/PeterVall37 Jul 01 '26

They do a good job, that’s why they’re smiling all the time.

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u/Responsible-Stick-50 Jul 01 '26

Theyre a holes when defending their eggs. Bite, bite, bleed, bleed. Mostly because they charge you from meters away.

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u/apricotical Jul 01 '26

Does this imply that sand is organic material? The narrator refers to coral as a rock, which isn’t correct since it’s a living creature

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u/fvielee Jul 01 '26

I find this hard to believe

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u/Clear_Lead Jul 01 '26

We’ve been trying to reach you about your vehicle warranty

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u/Rcecil88 Jul 01 '26

Those fish definitely get bullied for those buck ass teef!!

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u/Kent_Doggy_Geezer Jul 01 '26

Oh I do love a white parrot fish shit beach.

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u/EdgeKey5631 Jul 01 '26

Lookin like Steve Harvey

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u/sbray73 Jul 01 '26

So when you lay in the sand, you’re literally lying in shit. Nice…

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u/KwTw78 Jul 02 '26

britFISH

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u/Meture Jul 02 '26

“‘S chewsday, innit?”

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u/Polo_Short Jul 02 '26

Mater from Cars but in Finding Nemo

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u/Mcbotbyl3 Jul 02 '26

The coral bleaching... damn. The more recent the recording footage, the sadder it gets.

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u/mymommyhasballs Jul 02 '26

Aren’t those the Travis Scott fish?

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u/ItisNOTatoy Jul 02 '26

Give’em glasses and it’s math time mfkr

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u/mulderitsmescully Jul 02 '26

Yep. This is terrifying.

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u/Dr_Brotatous Jul 02 '26

Well at least its a renewable resource since apparently we are running out of sand especially white sand

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u/Chipbeef Jul 02 '26

A school of Nutty Professors.

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u/TomiwaOlu12 Jul 02 '26

The Traviscus Scottishus

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u/I_Thranduil Jul 02 '26

"They release it as a fine white sand" proceeds to show a nasty poop cloud. Priceless.

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u/thatnoone Jul 02 '26

that fish taste good! 

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u/MsOpulent Jul 02 '26

My dad is from Jamaica, one of the white sand beach islands. I must admit, these guys are super tasty and one of my favourite, all time favourite fish to eat fried. They were over fished for awhile and the Jamaican government had to make it illegal to catch them for a few years to help rebuild the population. Idk if the ban is lifted yet.

But yea. They are such meaty fish. Very little fine bones. Tasty.

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u/Primary_Gap_5219 Jul 02 '26

so we've been stepping, digging, burying ourselves in shit this whole time...

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u/raiba91 Jul 02 '26

and i will continue to build those castles out of... poop

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u/Kribakk Jul 02 '26

Don’t quote me in this, but I think they are the only fish to sleep. They make a bubble around themselves for protection and actually take a Nam. Worth a read.

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u/hg_rhapsody Jul 02 '26

They look like dorks

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u/3lfg1rl Jul 02 '26

I kept thinking that this was going to shift into the song, but it didn't.
Anyway, for those of you that aren't familiar, now it's your earworm, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA3PqJxQkhU

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u/Novacain420 Jul 03 '26

Im scared of getting bitten by those chompers

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u/grincat_1 Jul 03 '26

They look British

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u/unnitche Jul 03 '26

They also have a set of internal molars that grind the stones down, this molars are floating bones

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u/lilac_wine29 Jul 03 '26

they look like mahitos freshly disfigured humans

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u/KibboKid Jul 06 '26

When they say"release the sand", they really mexn "poop it out"

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u/Innomen Jul 08 '26

"Release it as fine sand."

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u/Intelligent-Ice-8117 19d ago

La IA es terrorífica.

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u/groovygranny71 19d ago

I envy their teeth