AGAIN I FEEL THWARTED BY THE LACK OF FISH SPECIES TAG XD
Inked this at AC and got everything done just in time to put it up in the art show. I guess it sold? I had to leave early Sunday so didn't pick my art up, but I think this was not among those remaining @-@
Ink on bristol board :)
Inked this at AC and got everything done just in time to put it up in the art show. I guess it sold? I had to leave early Sunday so didn't pick my art up, but I think this was not among those remaining @-@
Ink on bristol board :)
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Animal related (non-anthro)
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Thank you!
And yep, those are parasitic males
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish :
"At birth, male ceratioids are already equipped with extremely well developed olfactory organs that detect scents in the water. The male ceratoid lives solely to find and mate with a female. They are significantly smaller than a female angler fish, and may have trouble finding food in the deep sea. Furthermore, the growth of the alimentary canals of some males become stunted, preventing them from feeding. These features necessitate his quickly finding a female anglerfish to prevent death. The sensitive olfactory organs help the male to detect the pheromones that signal the proximity of a female anglerfish. 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 his digestive organs, then his brain, heart, and eyes, and ends as nothing more than a pair of gonads, which release 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.
crazy huh?
And yep, those are parasitic males
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish :
"At birth, male ceratioids are already equipped with extremely well developed olfactory organs that detect scents in the water. The male ceratoid lives solely to find and mate with a female. They are significantly smaller than a female angler fish, and may have trouble finding food in the deep sea. Furthermore, the growth of the alimentary canals of some males become stunted, preventing them from feeding. These features necessitate his quickly finding a female anglerfish to prevent death. The sensitive olfactory organs help the male to detect the pheromones that signal the proximity of a female anglerfish. 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 his digestive organs, then his brain, heart, and eyes, and ends as nothing more than a pair of gonads, which release 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.
crazy huh?
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