Deep Sea Angler Fish

 The Deep Sea Angler Fish

The deep sea Angler Fish is a very scary deep sea fish. It has big teethes with a very ferocious appearance. The Angler fish belongs to the order of the Lophiiformes it's named this way beacuse of their special way of hunting. You'll see it in the video below this post. Angler fishes have many bones, with no flesh attached to them. The Angler Fish also has photophores (light giving organ) on his esca (bait) and when a fish touches his esca then it's over. The Angler Fish esca is connected with his mouth reflex! As a result, the creature that touches its esca dies in a fraction of a second. The Angler Fish can easily swallow prays of more then two times his size because of its flexible bones in his body.

 

Angler Fish

 

The reproduction of the Angler Fish is unique for its specie. Encountering another male or female in such a big ocean is hard if you're only a few inches big. Therefore they have developed a special solution for that. When scientist went to the sea to capture these Angler Fishes they only found female ones and no males, but what appeared to be parasites on the body of these females were actually remains of male ceratioids ( male Angler Fish).

 

Deep Sea Angler Fish

 

The male ceratioid (Angler Fish) has a special developed organ to detect scents in the water. If the male ceratioids matures, then its digestive system will degenerate. This is a big problem because when its digestive system degenerates it makes him incapable to feed independently. The male ceratioids needs to find a Female Anglerfish, if it doesn't find a femal it dies. Once it has found a female Angler Fish with the help of their special organs that can smell a Female Anglerfish from big distances. They bite the female Angler Fish and as a result it relases an enzyme that will digest the skin of the Female Anglerfish and the mouth of the male. Once it's attached he releases his sperm in response of the female hormones. The Male actually becomes one with the Female Angler fish and her blood will flow in his body forever until he or she dies.

 

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"In the first century A.D., Pliny the Elder-in a bout of oceanic hubris-pronounced that there were precisely 176 species of marine fauna and that, ''by Hercules, in the ocean . . . nothing exists which is unknown for us.'' Would that we could summon Pliny from his celestial Hall of Shame and thwack him over the head with Claire Nouvian''s The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss.
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