Mama showed me a video about these fish before we got here, so I was very excited to finally see them.
They are so strong because they can live in the water when the water is almost frozen and also when it gets to be 100 degrees. The water is shallow. They only live a year. I thought they were called pug fish but they are pupfish. I saw a lot of them mating. Mating is when the sperm and egg meet and small fish start to grow from the sperm and egg together and that means they are going to be more pupfish later!
I saw the ranger tell some people to put their dog on a leash and stop running in the pup fish area. The same ranger told some other people to stop digging up the pupfish creek. All of those people were acting like they were at the beach! It made me mad. I spoke to the ranger and asked what pupfish eat and he said algae and insects. Algae is a plant that grows in water. I also asked if the dog hurt the pupfish and he said probably not but it isn’t allowed.