Hagfish predatory behaviour and slime defence mechanism
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Uploaded by tepapamuseum on Oct 26, 2011
Hagfishes (Myxinidae) are a family of jawless marine pre-vertebrates. Those video images taken in New Zealand revealed that hagfishes are able to choke their would-be predators with gill-clogging slime.It also shows that hagfishes are actively preying on other fish in New Zealand waters.
The video is part of a scientific paper describing this newly discovered behaviour which can be downloaded online at http://www.nature.com/srep/2011/111027/srep00131/full/srep00131.html
Zintzen V., Roberts, C.D., Anderson M.J., Stewart A.L., Struthers C.D. & Harvey E.S. (2011) Hagfish predatory behaviour and slime defence
mechanism. Scientific Reports 1, 131; DOI:10.1038/srep00131
More Te Papa fish-related blog posts: http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/category/fish/
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Hey it's the "I've been internalising a really complicated situation in my head" add----------------->
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When has the Great Barrier Reef been in New Zealand? Alright New Zealand you can have Russell Crow, just give us back our reef!
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So what does Beyonce have to do with hagfish predatory behavior?
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@Flyborg i agee lol!!! Poor lil Hagfish. Must be tuff when every1 wants 2 EAT u lol!!
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The title had me at "slime defence"
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No wonder the little ugly f***ers haven't changed for millions of years, they're pretty much a perfect design 0.o Eat disgusting food no one else really wants and be inedible. Also.. I must learn how to slime on enemies.
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Damn nature, you scary!
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im so high
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You can almost hear the fish going "Blegh! Blegh! Ugh! Blegh!"
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bassunterrockz 4 months ago 13
nom nom nom *pleh* tastes like shit X$
JusTINcredible406 4 months ago 13