Australia Has Fish Problem #shorts

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]Australia has a fish problem. This fish, called the climbing [music] perch, which is native to Asia, is becoming a serious invasive threat in Australia because of its bizarre survival abilities. [music] Unlike most fish, it can breathe air using a special organ above its gills, allowing it to survive out of water for [music] hours. It can even wriggle across land to invade new waterways.

[00:00:18]Worse still, its sharp gill spines can lodge in the throats of predators, [music] making it difficult for native animals to eat and control them naturally.