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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
WOW
I always had a fascination for angler fish... They are amongst the most mysterious creatures ever oh so minutely known to man.
..."Some anglerfishes of the superfamily Ceratioidei employ an unusual mating method. Because individuals are presumably locally rare and encounters doubly so, finding a mate is problematic. When scientists first started capturing ceratioid anglerfish, they noticed that all of the specimens were females. These individuals were a few inches in size and almost all of them had what appeared to be parasites attached to them. It turned out that these "parasites" were the remains of male ceratioids.
At birth, male ceratioids are already equipped with extremely well developed olfactory organs that detect scents in the water. When it is mature, the male's digestive system degenerates, making him incapable of feeding independently, which necessitates his quickly finding a female anglerfish to prevent his death. The sensitive olfactory organs help the male to detect the pheromones that signal the proximity of a female anglerfish. When he finds a female, he bites into her skin, and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level. The male then atrophies into nothing more than a pair of gonads, which releases sperm in response to hormones in the female's bloodstream indicating egg release. This extreme sexual dimorphism ensures that, when the female is ready to spawn, she has a mate immediately available."
from wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish
Yes I intend to write more often. Not sure how many followers I have. Or how many people I have disappointed in linking them to this blog and seeing that the last post is from aeons ago. LOL. But anyway. I'm back blogging world. I'm really back.
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