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Unusual mating method of the Deep-sea Angler Fish
(Interesting animal phenomena CW post - Club South America)
For those who have seen Finding Nemo, the Angler Fish is the one that attacks Marlin and Dory while Dory tries to read the address off the diving mask. The one with the light bulb type thingy on its head which glows in the dark, and weird long teeth which look like the fangs of a snake. Those who haven't seen Finding Nemo, you can look at the animated version of the fish in the picture below. Anyway, the post is not about its ugly looks, but about the extremely bizarre, kinda gross and very sexist mating method of the angler fish.
When scientists first started finding the Angler Fish, they were surprised to discover that all the fish they found were females. So where are the males and how does the fish reproduce if there are no males? It made no sense. Then they noticed that the fish had what appeared to be small parasites attached to their bodies. Then it hit them. Holy twisted fish coitus batman! These were the males, and they were stuck to the female's body in a perennial state of banging.
So how does this happen and why? I'll elaborate. The angler fish are very rare and basically forever alone. They don't party, they don't socialize, they don't even hang out with each other at all. As such, it's hard to have chance encounters with potential mates. That means no one-night stands, no date rape, no nothing. Secondly, the males are very tiny in size, can't travel far, can't feed themselves very well, but they have strong olfactory senses. Basically, the male exists for the sole purpose of finding a female to mate with (although, when you come to think of it, so does every male of every species). When his strong sense of smell helps the male detect the presence of a female nearby, he goes after her and here's where the bizarre shxt begins.
The male bites into the female's skin (yeah, real sexy), and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair together. The male becomes a part of the female's body and starts stealing her food, and in turn he gives her the sperm. A female can often have more than one male stuck into her at the same time, turning this already bizarre mating method into the weirdest gangbang ever. After morphing with the female like that, the male no longer needs most of its organs, because now he is feeding off her. So it is reduced to nothing more than a pair of sperm-producing testicles. At this point, the female becomes a hermaphrodite with several pairs of balls sticking out of her body. She can now have sex any time she wants without having to look for a male. Clinging to her body like tiny pairs of balls, the males have no interaction with the female, except to give her sperm when she needs (no pillow talk either).
This concludes the suicidal sexual journey of the male angler fish. I can't decide if it's a happy story or a sad one. One one hand, you are having sex all the time, and getting free food. On the other hand, you are essentially just a pair of testicles now and you are forever stuck (literally) with one female. What if you hate her or if she likes her other pairs of balls more than you? There's nothing you can do about that any more. Except wait for your turn to be used for sperm until she dies. But your seed will live on! You will father many ugly daughters and parasitic sons, and thus the circle of life will continue in the deep sea.
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