Metamorphosism

Little-known facts about the monkfish

• Monkfish prefer deep water, as deep as 2000 feet.
  
• Monkfish can distend their jaws to eat their prey, which includes fish, turtles and sea birds.
  
• Since they eat birds, monkfish can theoretically transmit avian flu.
  
• Speaking of avian flu, monkfish think the collective noun "a murder of crows" is finally starting to make sense.
  
• Young monkfish appear innocent and can lie so convincingly that father monkfish fall for it every time, and only mother monkfish can see through their stories.
  
• Mother monkfish attribute this ability of young monkfish to father monkfish's habit of telling them Luegengeschichten.
  
• Monkfish is sometimes called "the poor man's lobster" due to its taste.
  
• Monkfish is rarely sold in stores with the head still attached.