In the deep sea, there is an ugly-looking fish that always likes to wear a lantern, which we call the catfish.
Because the appearance of the sturgeon is so casual, it is quite well-known in human society, especially in science fiction or animation works involving the ocean, if there is no sturgeon, it always feels like something is missing. Sturgeon is actually a very widely distributed fish, and there are many species, the known species of sturgeon reached more than 200 species, different species of sturgeon in both size and appearance are very different, and their common point is that they are ugly and wear a lantern.
However, since it is living in the deep sea where the sky is not seen, it does not matter what it looks like, but it is good-looking enough to worry that there is no chance to show it. In fact, the kind of ugly-looking sturgeon we are familiar with with lanterns should be, to be precise, it should be a female squid, and the male fish is very different from the female fish.
Although the sturgeon is a deep-sea fish, some species also live in the sea at a depth of about 100 meters, so humans have long discovered the existence of sturgeon.
But until the 19th century, humans did not realize that the salmon that had been found was actually just a female. It wasn't until people began to study the sturgeon that they were surprised to find out how all the trout were females. Where did the male squid go? This question has been plaguing researchers at the time. Later, people learned that humans actually found male sturgeon from the beginning, but people did not realize that it was male squid. When researching and fishing for sturgeon, it is common to see a small fish in the area where the sturgeon is active, which has a certain similarity with the body structure of the sturgeon, but the body size and the sturgeon are very different.
The average sturgeon can reach more than 30 cm in size, and some species can even reach 1 meter, while the small fish found near the sturgeon is only a few millimeters long.
Fast forward to 1924, when Reagan, who was working at the British Museum of Natural History, discovered a small fish attached to a small fish, and out of curiosity, he conducted an anatomical study of the small fish, which turned out to be the male squid.
It's surprising that the difference in appearance and body size between male and female sturgeon is so large. Later, through research, people understood that the male sturgeon has a unique survival strategy, that is, to rely on female sturgeon, this behavior if placed in human society, we will call it "eating soft rice". In human society, eating soft rice usually occurs in the partnership between strong women and weak men, from this point of view, the soft rice of male sturgeon is taken for granted, because compared with females, it is too weak, if a male squid can not find a female in the initial time of life, then it is likely not to survive, because the male squid is not only weak, but also has almost no means of hunting in the deep sea.
The way the sturgeon hunts in the deep sea is mainly trapping, that is, using the lantern on the head as bait to attract the prey, and then swallowing the prey in one bite.
However, the male sturgeon does not have a lantern that will glow, and its weak body and petite mouth cannot swallow anything, so the male sturgeon only does one thing in his life, that is, to find a female squid. When the male sturgeon finds a female in the deep sea, it will not hesitate to bite the female's abdomen with its teeth, and after the successful hooking, the unthinkable will happen in between.
The physiological tissues of the female and the male will gradually merge, and their circulatory systems will be connected, which means that the male will no longer need to eat, and it can obtain nutrients directly from the female's body. We still don't know how fusion occurs and how the circulatory system is perfectly connected, and this natural fusion that occurs between two separate beings is still a mystery to human beings.
The reason why male fish can find female fish in the vast deep sea is that one is by smell, the other is by vision, smell to capture the smell information of female fish, and vision to find the lantern of female fish.
However, when a male fish successfully finds the female and achieves fusion, these once meritorious body organs will gradually degenerate, including the eyes, many internal and external organs of the body will atrophy, since then the male fish has truly become a part of the female fish, but it is still independent survival, in the breeding season, the couple through some communication within the body, while the eggs and sperm are discharged in the water to achieve in vitro breeding.
The interesting story about the couple of sturgeon is here, and finally let's talk about the topic that many people are most concerned about, that is, eating. The sturgeon does not look hideous, but the taste is excellent, its flesh quality is similar to that of lobster, and there is the liver of the trout, the taste is simply indescribable, can only say who eats who knows.