The fishermen caught a huge long-blinded pike. To their detachment, the pike turned out to be very well-fed

The fishermen caught a huge long-blinded pike. To their detachment, the pike turned out to be very well-fed. As a blind pike could find food.

In the water, fish are guided not so much by sight, but along the lateral line, which runs along the sides of the fish and looks like a dark strip. In the lateral line there are papillae to which the nerve is connected. Fluctuations in the water are transmitted to the papillae, and from them is an impulse along the nerves to the brain. With the help of the lateral line, the fish can sense what is happening around it, in the water, which explains why the fish can hunt in the night and in troubled waters. So throwing a stick of dynamite into the water, the fish loses consciousness due to paralysis of the nerves of the lateral line. It is the presence of the lateral line that explains how a blind fish does not starve to death.