Flying fish is a kind of fish, and it is a special kind of fish. From the appearance point of view, their most prominent feature is that they have "wings", some species of flying fish have two wings, some species of flying fish have four wings, just like the wings of birds, although they can not fly in the air for a long time like birds, but they do can jump out of the water, can jump to more than ten meters above the water. They can stay in the air for a while, but not very long, about 40 seconds, which is when they can be said to be flying, which is why they get their name. From their living environment, flying fish live in the ocean and belong to marine fish.
Flying fish can also be classified according to their size. Flying fish is a kind of small fish, even after adulthood, their body length is only tens of centimeters, the largest flying fish body length is only about 45 centimeters, in the ocean is a relatively small fish. They mainly eat some plankton in the water. Because of their small size, they will be preyed on by some larger fish. However, although their size is relatively small, the speed of flying fish is relatively fast, reaching 10 meters per second.
As introduced above, from the point of view of living environment, it can be said that flying fish is a kind of marine fish. From the specific classification point of view, the distribution of flying fish in the world is very wide. From the tropics to the warm temperate zone of the sea, the distribution of flying fish are more. Because it is in the Pacific Ocean, the number of flying fish is the largest, followed by the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. In April and May of each year, it is the breeding season for flying fish, when they will spawn near the inland sea of China.
