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[narrator] Did you know there’s a fish that pretends to die… just to survive? Meet the Bengal Loach — a small river fish found in South Asia. When predators attack, this fish flips upside down and stays completely still, looking like a dead fish. Many predators ignore dead prey… so the loach …

[narrator] Did you know there’s a fish that pretends to die… just to survive? Meet the Bengal Loach — a small river fish found in South Asia. When predators attack, this fish flips upside down and stays completely still, looking like a dead fish. Many predators ignore dead prey… so the loach tricks them and escapes danger. But here’s the crazy part… sometimes it stays still even after the danger is gone. So if you see a Bengal loach floating upside down… it might not be dead. It might