Uncooperative Crickets

Animal of the Day

Hi everyone,

Please allow me to introduce you to the hagfish.



Hagfish, everyone. I heard about the hagfish while reading The Straight Dope.

There are two things that you need to know about hagfish. First, they produce a lot of slime.



They apparently create this slime to make them slippery to predators. Of course, after a hagfish gets away, it doesn't want to spend the rest of the afternoon covered in slime. To get the slime off of it, it scrapes it off by tying itself into an overhand knot.



I hope you had fun with your new friend Hagfish.

posted by Dirk Awesome @ 1:27 PM