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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Till Death Do Us...OK, we are still stick together you Retard

Welcome to the freakish love story of the deep-sea angler fish,where "Together, Forever" sound really extra.

Over 100 species of angler fish live deep in the ocean, fishing for prey by waving a fleshy, glowing forehead appendage in front of their wide mouths and their hungry stomach. The vast darkness of the deep ocean makes the angler fish dating scene even tougher than Boston’s, particularly for males, which are desperately sex hungry. Females are slow-moving, sparse (males outnumber them by up to 30 to one) and just don't have the drive to hunt down a mate. So males must dart through the depths searching frantically for a female, guided only by their noses - which are the largest, compared to the size of the fish, of any vertebrate.

But Lady Luck is boosting for the males, female anglerfish are not only smelly, but comparatively huge. A female angler can reach three and a half feet in length, which hangs in the water like a spiny huge eggplant. The males are merely two-thirds of an inch. But despite her fragrant bulk, the odds are still gainst a male finding a female to spawn with each year. So the angler fish have evolved a mating strategy, which takes kinky sex and monogamy to disturbing new levels.

Once the male has sniffed out a female, he swims up and clamps down on her with evolved tooth-like plates in his upper and lower jaw. And once he sinks them into a chosen female, he stays put. If anglerfish sex were anything like the human variety, after spawning the male would immediately fall asleep or disappear, either way relaxing his grip. But the male anglerfish doesn’t let go. Ever again. FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE.

http://www.bu.edu/sjmag/scimag2004/storypages/angler1.htm

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