Deep sea fishing has a very strange mating method. The small male bites a much larger female, and in some species his body tissue fuses with her.
Men effectively turn into a sac of sperm that is hanging from the woman and are ready to use whenever the egg needs to be fertilized.
The body does not reject male hitchhikers as female fishing fish can even turn off parts of the immune system.
The strategy works in vast, dark spaces in the deep sea. There, when you encounter the right companions, you will be rewarded for hanging firmly and never letting go.
This article is the answer to the question (asked by Peter Willis in an email) “What is the strangest fish flock?”
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