Hagfish predatory behaviour and slime defence mechanism

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Hagfish predatory behaviour and slime defence mechanism

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Description

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...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8aVgSIDJjM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Related subjects

science / scientific reports / slime / hagfish / deep-sea / ecology / behaviour / Natural Science / predation / predator

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