Deep Romance
January 24th 2007 by Sean in relationshipz, weirded
I ended up watching Animal Planet while eating my dinner. A show was on about deep sea creatures. There are some bizarre beasties floating around down there. With this one species of fish, the male is about 10 times smaller than the female. He hunts around for a mate and when he finds her and keeps biting at her until he gets a good grip. Then, after a while they become fused and spend the rest of their life together. The male turns into an appendage and is nourished through the food she takes in, providing in exchange a viable stream of sperm. Talk about codependency!
Then there is this shrimp-like thing that craps out a bioluminescent depth charge to evade predators. To think that Earth is just one planet in a small solar system in a small galaxy, in a gigantic universe that we can’t even begin to truly comprehend…
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January 24th, 2007 at 11:46 am
funny
and we thought the black widow and praying mantis were odd.
January 25th, 2007 at 8:48 am
Did she look like this? http://www.imagequest3d.com/catalog…_jpg.htm
Anglerfish have some really odd Karma. The male actually dissolves itself into nothing more than male sexual organs.
January 25th, 2007 at 9:48 am
weird
yucky.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:49 am
http://www.imagequest3d.com/catalog…_jpg.htm
That’s the one!!!
March 12th, 2007 at 11:50 am
>the natural world definately has a sense of humour !
>my grandpa used to make us watch those nature programmes whilst we ate our tea -no wonder i became a vegetarian