Pretty weak “best of” tbh
How many posts does this community see per day? ANYTHING IS A STRONG “BEST OF” POST
Why do they have to go all the way back “home” to mate, though?
Evolution is a crazy removed
Probably because their offspring survive better in the freshwater streams than the ocean that they’ll live in later in life.
Possibly dumb question: Does salmon taste different when eaten before and after spawning?
They’re basically a pile of mush by the end of their run, about to keel over and die. They don’t have any fat and the muscles have been mostly used for energy as well. It gets significantly fishier smelling too, but like, not in a good way.
Some people like it. My dogs used to like to yank our shoulders out of the sockets on walks, trying to go roll around in the ones that flopped on to shore to die. That’s not fun to scrub out of an excitable labrador.