Every year, the highly Muserly website Whale Times devotes the third Wednesday in October to celebrating one of the most unlovable creatures in the ocean, the lowly hagfish. For more information, visit www . whaletimes . org/HagfishDay1 . htm.
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“Unlovable”?
But it’s so cute!
Happy hagfish day, and many happy returns!
I told my study skills teacher about it, and she didn’t believe me.People, appreciate your cyclostomes.
I didn’t even know there was a hagfish day! Happy Day of the Most Flammy Fish in the Sea!
D’aww. What an adorablehagfish!
Yeah, take that, Google Spell Check. Adorablehagfish is a word now.
NOOOOO how could I have missed this, this is what I get for “okay let’s try not to internet the day away
I get MISSED HOLIDAYS I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO
You have an aquatic invertebrates class? Awesome!
Yep! It’s pretty neat. Not my favorite class this semester, but we get to do interesting stuff in lab. Research/lab write up based instead of just worksheets or lectures, which can be more stressful but it more like actual science so is good in the long run.
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KA: Some people are put off by their diet: hagfish wriggle into the decaying corpses of other marine creatures and eat them from the inside out. But they have some charming talents as well. For example, they’re one of the few vertebrates capable of tying themselves into an overhand knot. I don’t know why they’d want to do that, but apparently it’s not unusual.
Don’t they do it to clean off the slime periodically?
I read that they sleep while tied into a knot to prevent them from drowning in their own mucus.
Ingenious! I’ll have to try it some time.
They also don’t have enough muscles in their mouths to pull food off, so tie themselves in a knot while grasping onto food and then pull the knot through to help them rip off bite-sized chunks!
*off of the large dead thing they are eating from, that is
*casually scrolling down*
*sees picture of hagfish*
*thinks it is what it isn’t*
“ah!”
*reads headline*
oh… it’s a hagfish…. cool!”
(to me it looked like a pig at first)