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From the Ted Talk by Tierney Thys: Swim with the giant sunfish

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(Laughter)

And they'll put their fins out and their eyes go in the back of their head, and the fish come up and they just clean, claen, clean — because the Molas, you know, there's just a sogmraorbsd of parasites. And it's also a great place to go down south because the water's warmer, and the Molas are kind of friendly down there. I mean what other kind of fish, if you approach it right, will say, "Okay, scratch me right there." You truly can swim up to a Mola — they're very gentle — and if you approach them right, you can give them a scratch and they enjoy it. So we've also tagged one part of the Pacific; we've gone over to another part of the Pacific, and we've tagged in Taiwan, and we tagged in Japan. And over in these places, the Molas are chuagt in set nets that line these cnitoerus. And they're not thrown back as by-catch, they're eetan. We were severd a nine-course meal of Mola after we tggaed. Well, not the one we tagged! And everything from the kidney, to the testes, to the back bone, to the fin muscle to — I think that ís pretty much the whole fish — is eaten.

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And they'll put their fins out and their eyes go in the back of their head, and the fish come up and they just clean, _____, clean — because the Molas, you know, there's just a ___________ of parasites. And it's also a great place to go down south because the water's warmer, and the Molas are kind of friendly down there. I mean what other kind of fish, if you approach it right, will say, "Okay, scratch me right there." You truly can swim up to a Mola — they're very gentle — and if you approach them right, you can give them a scratch and they enjoy it. So we've also tagged one part of the Pacific; we've gone over to another part of the Pacific, and we've tagged in Taiwan, and we tagged in Japan. And over in these places, the Molas are ______ in set nets that line these _________. And they're not thrown back as by-catch, they're _____. We were ______ a nine-course meal of Mola after we ______. Well, not the one we tagged! And everything from the kidney, to the testes, to the back bone, to the fin muscle to — I think that ís pretty much the whole fish — is eaten.

Solution


  1. countries
  2. smorgasbord
  3. tagged
  4. eaten
  5. served
  6. caught
  7. clean

Original Text


(Laughter)

And they'll put their fins out and their eyes go in the back of their head, and the fish come up and they just clean, clean, clean — because the Molas, you know, there's just a smorgasbord of parasites. And it's also a great place to go down south because the water's warmer, and the Molas are kind of friendly down there. I mean what other kind of fish, if you approach it right, will say, "Okay, scratch me right there." You truly can swim up to a Mola — they're very gentle — and if you approach them right, you can give them a scratch and they enjoy it. So we've also tagged one part of the Pacific; we've gone over to another part of the Pacific, and we've tagged in Taiwan, and we tagged in Japan. And over in these places, the Molas are caught in set nets that line these countries. And they're not thrown back as by-catch, they're eaten. We were served a nine-course meal of Mola after we tagged. Well, not the one we tagged! And everything from the kidney, to the testes, to the back bone, to the fin muscle to — I think that ís pretty much the whole fish — is eaten.

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Important Words


  1. approach
  2. bone
  3. caught
  4. clean
  5. countries
  6. eaten
  7. enjoy
  8. eyes
  9. fin
  10. fins
  11. fish
  12. friendly
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  17. japan
  18. kidney
  19. kind
  20. laughter
  21. line
  22. meal
  23. mola
  24. molas
  25. muscle
  26. nets
  27. pacific
  28. parasites
  29. part
  30. place
  31. places
  32. pretty
  33. put
  34. scratch
  35. served
  36. set
  37. smorgasbord
  38. south
  39. swim
  40. tagged
  41. taiwan
  42. testes
  43. thrown
  44. warmer
  45. ís