Do Fish Get Thirsty?

A fish in a bowl

As I was watching a few small tropical fish swim around in a friend’s 10-gallon tank, I suddenly wondered: do fish ever get thirsty?

If fish do get thirsty, do they try to swim to somewhere new and exciting for a bit of something fresh to drink?

I wondered about an enormous great white shark attacking from below as an unexpecting seal is about to become dinner. Does the shark say to itself, “I’ll open my mouth a bit early so I can wash this seal down more easily. That one I ate a few days ago really got caught in the throat,”?

How about whales, seals, dolphins, penguins and other animals that live in the sea, but breath oxygen? What do they drink?

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