2020年8月1日 · In this gruesome way, these fish become nothing more than loyal and loving appendages with testes. Or, more accurately, sexual parasites. As one naturalist put it in 1938: "This is sheer fiction, beyond all belief unless we have seen the proof of it." And we have - we've actually got footage.

2015年1月6日 · For anglerfish, mating involves biting, fusing tissues together, and the complete lack of mate choice by females.

2018年3月26日 · Explorers Kirsten and Joachim Jakobsen were cruising through the deep waters around Portugal’s Azores islands in a submersible when they spotted “something with a funny form,” Kristen tells...

2025年1月21日 · When a male anglerfish finds a partner, he doesn’t just court her — he attaches to her body, sometimes fusing with her for life. This extreme adaptation, known as sexual parasitism, helps ensure reproductive success in a world where mates are few and far between.

2023年4月7日 · When ceratioid males go looking for love, they follow a species-specific pheromone to a female, who will often aid their search further by flashing her bioluminescent lure. Once the male finds a...

2024年7月11日 · Some species of deep sea anglerfish mate for only a short time, during which the male will drink blood from the female and pump sperm into her body, and detach once reproduction is complete.

2020年7月31日 · Anglerfish that employ the most extreme form of sexual parasitism–where multiple males can conjoin with one female–could not produce functional antibodies and T cells, which typically fight off foreign invaders and differentiate an …

2020年11月3日 · According to a Roaring Earth report, Kirsten and Joachim Jakobsen have captured a video in 2016 of a six-inch female anglerfish and her mate using the submersible operated by the...

2023年2月16日 · After certain species of anglerfishes mate, the pair don’t just go their separate ways. Rather, they fuse together for the rest of their lives. Depending on the species, a male has special receptors that alert him to nearby females of his own species.

When a male angler fish seeks a mate, he deploys a unique strategy—one might even say, a parasitic one. With a flowing spine and an insatiable hunger for the promise of life, the male is drawn inexorably to the female. His destiny lies in securing her as his mate.