IFishCT.com » rosy lipped batfish http://ifishct.com/blog I Fish. You Learn. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:43:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Rosy Lipped Batfish – More Weird Things From The Deep Blue Sea http://ifishct.com/blog/2008/08/05/rosy-lipped-batfish-more-weird-things-from-the-deep-blue-sea/ http://ifishct.com/blog/2008/08/05/rosy-lipped-batfish-more-weird-things-from-the-deep-blue-sea/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:49:04 +0000 admin http://ifishct.com/blog/?p=128 Maybe not as a weird as the Montauk Monster, or maybe it is, you can decide as well as I can; the Batfish is definitely a strange creature… This photo has in no way been photoshopped or touched up, the lips on this thing are real (no lipstick applied!)…

red lipped batfish, not photoshopped

These creatures are found in the waters surrounding Costa Rica, can foil the plans of even the most sneaky “joker” fish, and can be used as an excuse to the question “What is that lipstick on your collar?”: Uh this? it’s not what you think, I was swimming and I bumped into a rosy lipped batfish! Ok, ok maybe just the part about Costa Rica is true…

What do you think a batfish would sound like if it could talk? Maybe something like James Earl Jones…

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