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This title had the garden path sentence effect on me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence



I would love it if there was a browser extension specifically designed to maximize garden-path value of any headline.

For this one I'd suggest:

Scoop: catfish waterfall scaling climb film


What a fascinating read. From the article, "the horse raced past the barn fell" is messing me up.


It's parallel to "the dress given to the girl ripped".

There is an ambiguity allowing for a different parse, interpreting "the barn fell" as a fell associated with the barn: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fell#Etymology_3

But that one isn't intended.


I found a new one: "time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like bananas"


That is several decades old.


Akshually it was new to me :)


Same here, I'll let you know when my brain stops hurting.


Huh, interesting. Doesn't happen much in fusional languages.


Can you provide the bracketing??


The catfish were the ones filming.


1) There are species of small "catfishes" (on Asia or Australia if I remember correctly) known to climb waterfalls in rainforests. We are talking about > 100m long fully vertical waterfalls.

2) In fact, they aren't catfishes. Belong to a big family of mainly marine fishes called gobies. Totally different orders. Should be named climbing gobies.

3) They do it for the same reason as Salmons do: to reproduce in freshwater.

4) But unlike salmons they don't swim or jump. They climb the slippery rock wall like a freestyle climber, using the suction cups in their belly that gobies have (pelvic fins transformed), and their other fins and tail to propel

5) Somebody filmed those fishes climbing.


The article says "Rochedo, Brazil" so South American rainforests, in this case.

These species are "restricted to fresh water in South America" source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopimelodidae#Distribution


Hum, yep. You are right, Pseudopimelodidae are catfishes. I was thinking in the Hawaiian climbing goby.


Evolutive convergence with gobies is interesting

Also interesting is the presence of Ancistrus and Hypostomus in the mix of climbing fishes. Many people keeping aquariums breed this fishes at home. The first can lay eggs and care for the fry, the second is very difficult to breed.


A whole lot of "climbing catfish" were filmed in the act of scaling a waterfall.




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