by Matthew Cobb
Jerry has previously blogged written (ha! he’ll be furious when he gets back) about sexual parasitism in the angler fish and camouflage in frogfish but he’s never shown this zefrank video, which has got over 6 million hits on YouTube IN THE LAST FIVE DAYS (can that be right?). It tells you TRUE FACTS about the Angler fish (and Frogfish which are a kind of Angler fish). Enjoy.
h/t @hannahjwaters on Twitter
Excellent!
Reblogged this on myatheistlife and commented:
Because Wodin’s day deserves a laugh! Yes, you read that right. Now learn the real truth of why evolution is true!!
I’m afraid it’s already Thor’s day for me, but since I have no hammer a laugh will do.
Yep, one of God’s more hilarious inventions!
Until now everything I knew about the Angler Fish was from The Oatmeal 🙂
I’ve watched this 4 times already while getting ready for work. Fucking hilarious.
Agreed!!
Amazing!!! I’ll be sharing this…
Watch or not watch? I think the post is presenting a lure.
I could swear that I saw at least three different mimic octopussies in that video….
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Lol!
Brilliant, and love the voice-over – was that Morgan Freeman?
One of the weird/creepy Gould essays is the one on anglerfish. For some reason he thought it would be some kind of secret fetish fantasy for men to live half-fused to a woman like a parasitic male anglerfish. Creeeeeeepy.
I believe you may be referring to rule 34, if it exists there is porn of it. It will be somebody’s weird sexual fetish, I guarantee it.
Entertaining, but was it accurate? I didn’t spot any obvious mistakes, but I figure there must be an anglerfish expert out there in Jerry’s readership who could give us inside info.
I’m not an expert, but I didn’t spot any obvious errors there (except for the metaphorical statement about leggings). It’s pretty damn good!
and the Pashmina shawl… 😀
LOL! Best video this year! Tnx.
It’s probably not REAL pashmina, they mostly aren’t. 😉
poor flounder! 🙂
I think I saw it on HuffPo (don’t worry, I was just there for the naked pictures), so that’s one reason why it received so many hits.
I noticed it at Failblog.
I’m thinking this makes it a near certaintly that god is female……..
“She changes everything she touches,
And everything She touches, changes.”
Hilarious. Thanks!
Hilarious. I started watching other recommended videos after and stumbled on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgJzuHEIfc
Leopard caring for a baby baboon??!!
I always thought “true facts” is kind of superfluous. If it’s a fact then surely by definition it must be true, if it isn’t true it isn’t a fact.
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Umm, which has the crappier life, a male angler fish or a male praying mantis? Hard to say. At least the mantis gets to have sex once before he dies, while the angler fish is effectively braindead before he ever does his thing. OK, so I’m anthropomorphising them both.