Hagfish Slime and Lobster Rolls
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Hagfish Slime and Lobster Rolls - Ellen Prager
Hagfish Slime and Lobster Rolls
With seven color photographs
ELLEN PRAGER
Chicago Shorts
Hagfish Slime and Lobster Rolls comes from Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Ocean’s Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter by Ellen Prager, © 2011 by Ellen Prager
All rights reserved.
Chicago Shorts edition, 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09457-1
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226094571.001.0001
CONTENTS
Introduction
Photographs
The Hagfish
Love Potion #9
Shape-Shifters
Why They Matter
How You Can Help
INTRODUCTION
Secreted away in stacks of scientific journals and academic books, hidden within the digital cloud of data on the web, is a wealth of fascinating information about marine organisms and their odd strategies for living in the sea. Years of research by scientists across the world have produced some extraordinary, almost unbelievable, stories about the oceans’ residents, many of which have surprising connections to society and everyday life. This information is all too rarely revealed to the layperson or made accessible and engaging to the nonscientist. Yet much of what has been discovered contributes significantly to our understanding of the planet, the oceans, and our reliance on marine resources, and is at the same time wonderfully entertaining, much of it being stranger than fiction and more salacious than a soap opera.
This book is meant to reveal the true goings-on in the sea, a tell-all of the oceans. It is not meant to be a comprehensive biological text or an exacting overview of the problems faced in the oceans, but rather a brief and entertaining look at some of the oceans’ most fascinating creatures, their unusual tactics for survival, and their invaluable links to humankind. The end goal is to showcase the importance of the great diversity of life in the sea, why it is at risk, and why we all should care.
The original title for the book was going to be something like Weird and Wild Under the Sea: And Why These Creatures Matter. As I began to comb through the literature and talk to my colleagues, however, the title began to evolve as several somewhat surprising and rather captivating themes started to emerge. I discovered that more of the oceans’ residents use, deploy, or are made up of slime than I ever expected. They use mucus to capture food, defend against predators, clean themselves off, and in reproduction. Many organisms have gelatinous bodies or arms of goo, and some use slime as protection against the cold, to reduce drag, or to enhance their travels by slickening their path. The undersea world is a seriously