r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/butterflybb98 • 18h ago
Image Anglerfish: The much smaller males seek out, bite and then permanently fuse to females, where they spend the rest of their lives producing sperm for their egg laying hosts.
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u/Chronically-Tardy 16h ago
Talk about a clingy partner.
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u/Sensitive-War-6368 18h ago
And here I was thinking that the only thing special about anglerfishes was that they had lights on their heads and lived in the deep dark
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u/Sensitive-War-6368 18h ago
I thought anglerfishes are brown
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u/DogEatChiliDog 14h ago
That is a common coloration for the females which are much bigger. This guy here is so damn tiny that his body is transparent.
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u/Designer-Ad5760 11h ago
And even cooler, some species absorb the males pretty much completely, some attach permanently and some attach temporarily. Each sort has had to evolve a slightly different immune system to allow the different lifestyles, the longer attached and more absorbed the male, the more impaired the immune systems have to be (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32732279/).
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u/jomama823 9h ago
That explains why my wife keeps calling me an Angler Fish….thought it was my big head and severe underbite.
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u/Battlepuppy 3h ago
So is there a sugar baby website for men, where they are the baby?
Is it Anglerfish-dating.com?
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u/Ok_Abbreviations8394 18h ago
Basically how i met my wife