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[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Me: Is that true?

Search a little

Me: Oh my god...

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/fish/tough-teeth-and-parrotfish-poop

In a year, one large parrotfish can produce 1,000 pounds (450 kg) of sand, the weight of a baby grand piano.

Most of the sand comes from waves sloshing onto rocks though, right? right?

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

most of the sand is eroded inland and deposited by rivers

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thank fuck for that!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Depends entirely on where you're at. Our coastal beaches are pure white and sound like popcorn (fish eating) when you're underwater near coral.

The beaches along the rivers can be brown sand, washed down as you say, but some are pebbles instead. Never understood how two rivers so close together ended up with such different beaches.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

I had never thought about the reproductive cycles of grand pianos, fascinating

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Whales eat the bones into sand

https://youtu.be/UO1Kcxahjdo

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Ya know that sound that you can hear under the water at white sand beaches? Sound like sand being ground through a bearing? Or a neck joint pressurizing? Yeah, that's the parrot fish... happily eating away.

[–] junkthief@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Being able to live of coral? Did you forget an “F”?

[–] CustardFist@feddit.nl 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There. I ixed it. 👇😃

[–] junkthief@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are the best “F”-r

[–] CustardFist@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago
[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] CustardFist@feddit.nl 9 points 1 week ago

Oh, thank you. 🤗
I’m trying to carve out a little niche for myself. Glad to find you in that niche. 🖐️🤓

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Definitely should have been "live off coral".

[–] CustardFist@feddit.nl 15 points 1 week ago

Dammit. I always make that mistake. 😣
The grammar checker also shrugs at this. 🤷‍♂️

[–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

I laughed a little too hard at this, because I just don’t love the beach. Felt like I should send it to my friends who are beach nuts, but looked down at my toast with honey I was eating and realized how much we enjoy things that are made by the excretion of other creatures.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] CustardFist@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

The animals are full of surprises. 🤯