What is a Mermaid?

MERMAIDS

A mermaid is an aquatic creature, often described as a half human female, half fish. There are no known male Mermaids, and we do not yet know how these creatures reproduce. Mermaids have never been filmed in the wild, and only a few have been briefly studied.

The idea that these creatures are half fish is due to their long fish like tail that starts at the lower abdomen were us humans would have our legs. I personally think of them as a creature that evolved for ocean living instead of land. I believe these creatures to be the aquatic equivalent of land humans.

In this post I will describe these mischievous creatures and their mysterious lives (or at least as much as we know about them from observations while in captivity).

I was lucky enough to get close to take a few photos of these beautiful aquatic creatures. However, keep in mind that these Mermaids might not behave as those in the wild, as I was told by the aquarium staff. We are yet to be able to study them in the ocean as they are extremely shy creatures, and they live in the ocean depths. Only a few have ever been seen in the wild but none have been filmed in their natural habitat.

Needles to say, I feel extremely lucky and honored to have been able to get close and personal with a few of these creatures.

These Mermaids were extremely friendly as they have been raised by humans. Some even allowed children to touch them and mimicked the crowd gestures and facial expressions.

I noticed Mermaids differ from each other just as us humans do. I also noticed their tails seemed to match their hair color and upper body markings.

Some were more playful than others, but overall they were all very tame and fun to watch! ;)

These are highly intelligent an social creatures. They form very strong bonds with each other and could not survive in isolation. Biologist have theorized that they are schooling type of aquatic creatures and you can often find them in groups of at least a dozen.

The Mermaid's main diet consists of ocean greens such as algae and some types of corals. They also seem to be able to "adopt" some types of other sea creatures as "pets".

These are some of the ocean creatures mermaids have been known to keep around and favor as pets.

I hope that you enjoyed learning all about Mermaids and looking at these photos.

Thank you so much for looking at my post!

*Pss. this is a fictional story, I hope I didn't confuse anyone ;)