You really think I'd get a tattoo without researching it? shakes fist at you Yes of course I know this! You know that they find each other - well the males find the females - because they have absurdly advanced olfactory organs, and they literally smell their way to the female? I think what I find most cool about their mating process is that they fuse together on a - I think it is - molecullar level and share bloodstreams. It seems very Platonian to me. People have pointed out that it's also possible to interpret that I see males as parasites, but it's more like - man, that's something real and true. Whoever talks about penguins mating for life don't have SHIT on the anglerfish. Ah-ha! I shall read about the whiptail! There are so many things i find cool about cuttlefish. I wrote a poem about them recently (kind of about them). They start seeing before they hatch out of the egg. How weird would that be? Moreover, they - like the octopus - can camoflague themselves to their surroundings, but they are colorblind. So whatever they use to camoflague is some other sense that scientists haven't been able to figure out yet. The sea is full of fascinating, awesome, weird creatures. And again, part of what attracts me to the anglerfish is the fact that they are so conventionally "ugly." In a world where we often judge everything based off their appearance I am drawn to ugly things. Perhaps my tattoo is a warning to the predatory male :) Perhaps it is a symbol of how I feel inside. (Perhaps these are reading deep.) I agree that the bioluminscense is yet another fascinating factor about anglerfish. I also like to read about the honeybadger.