Sound familiar?

[AAP]

At birth, males are already equipped with extremely well developed olfactory organs that detect scents in the water. The male lives solely to find and mate with a female. They are signifantly smaller than a female, and have trouble finding food in the deep sea. This necessitates his quickly finding a female to prevent his death. The sensitive olfactory organs help the male to detect the pheromones that signal the proximity of a female. When he finds a female, he bites into her skin, and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level. The male then slowly atrophies, first losing its digestive organs, then its brain, heart, and eyes, and ends as nothing more than a pair of gonads, which releases sperm in response to hormones in the female's bloodstream indicating egg release. This extreme sexual dimorphism ensures that, when the female is ready to spawn, she has a mate immediately available.[3]

 

[bigtravis]

ummmmm???? o.k.

 

[AAP]

It's an anglerfish.

Although the trait can apply to a certain member of this board as well.

 

[chewyxrage]

Wow. Rough life...kinda...

 

[Mr. dB]

It's an anglerfish.

Although the trait can apply to a certain member of this board as well.

Chris?

 

[swole]

lol awesome! this pretty much repeats what AAP wrote with a few more details:

Because angler fish are so sparsely populated throughout the vast millions of cubic miles of ocean, chance mating encounters between males and females would be unlikely. In fact, when deep-sea anglers were first brought up in trawls they puzzled scientists because they were all females. Then someone noticed small "growths" on the female that turned out to be males. When a tiny male meets a female he bits into her flesh and literally fuses with her body. Like the linking together of web sites on the Internet, the two blood supplies also fuse together so that the male obtains nutrients and oxygen from the female. Without any need for most of his organ systems, such as eyes and digestive organs, the male's body degenerates into essentially a pair of sperm-producing testicles. Thus the female essentially becomes a hermaphrodite with up to six or more of these tiny male parasites attached to various parts of her body. Although functionally bisexual, the eggs and sperm come from genetically distinct parents, thus providing vital genetic variability through meiosis and genetic recombination. As a functional hermaphrodite she can have sex any time or place, without worrying about meeting a male in the dark abyss of the ocean. Clinging to her body like minute, blood-sucking parasites, the males have little interaction with the female, except to fertilize her eggs with sperm. This fascinating story (and many others) are nicely explained in a pictorial book entitled The Mating Game by Robert Burton (Crown Publishers, New York, 1976).

 

[swole]

lol @ the males that are like that lololol

 

[swole]

wtf these bitch fish can bang whenever they want!!!! their pimp fin is strong!

 

[Mr. dB]

That bitch be ugly, no wonder she has to absorb her mate.