Tropical Two-wing Flyingfish

• A single flight can cover more than two hundred metres if the fish gives itself another push with its tail as it grazes the surface, without going under.
• It reaches speeds close to seventy kilometres an hour in the water before taking off.
• Its flights often land it on the decks of ships, and seabirds catch it in the air at the moment it leaves the water.
• It leaps from the water and glides above the surface on hugely enlarged pectoral fins to escape predators.
• It lives barely a year, and the floating eggs hatch in one or two weeks.
• Despite that escape strategy, it is important prey for large fish, sharks, squid, seabirds and marine mammals.

Habitat and environment

Surface waters of the open sea in tropical and subtropical zones

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocoetus_volitans