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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Pacific Lamprey The vampire fish

During the animals adult life, Pacific Lamprey are parasites consuming an average of 40 pounds of life . The characteristic sucking mouth parts of the lamprey allow it to attach itself to the body of a large trout. It’s horn shaped teeth surrounding the mouth opening clamp onto their prey, keeping them from being shaken off .

Once attached, the lamprey uses it’s tongue to rasp a hole in the flesh of its prey through which it sucks it’s blood. The saliva of the lamprey contains an anticoagulant that can keep the wound open and the blood flowing for weeks.

Many victims die of infections or blood loss.

Friday, July 22, 2016

bears fish and flying people

i drew a picture

i tattooed it a bit better

got two bad ass tattoos at once.

Monday, May 9, 2016

A walking fish with lipstick

This fish lives on the rocky seabed of the Paciﬁc. Because the ﬂoor is rough and spiky, it prefers not to swim along the bottom like a ﬂounder - instead it has evolved pectoral ﬁns that work like legs to ‘walk’ along the seabed. It doesn't use its dorsal ﬁn for swimming either; this has evolved into a spiny projection with a retractable ‘ﬁshing rod’, which it uses to lure in small ﬁsh and shrimp.

And the bright red lips? it turns out they really do perform a similar function to lipstick. The batfish uses them to help improve species recognition when searching for a mate.