Karen

sleepsleepnotwoke:

ikeepbeez:

thenamelessmonk:

bunjywunjy:

when male sockeye salmon are ready to breed they go from this

to this 

in a matter of weeks.

The lust is powerful

When they do this, they are dying. As soon as they leave saltwater and head up the river, they stop eating. You can’t catch them by enticing them to eat the fly; you can only snag them in the face. They do not care for food.
When they reach this stage, their flesh has gone soft. A scratch or a hook will gouge out chunks of already-pale meat and the fish goes on.
Spawning consists of wriggling on rocks, which causes flesh to tear: they do not care. They are zombies as soon as they’re into their home stream, and the transformation into undead fish is fast.
Toward the end of the season, the rivers are littered with the corpses of salmon, and even the bears don’t care because they have gorged.

The Coomer of the animal kingdom