TisButAScratch

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TIL about how male anglerfish fuse with the female and become a parasite in order to reproduce in c/til@lemmy.world
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TIL about how male anglerfish fuse with the female and become a parasite in order to reproduce (www.mentalfloss.com)
 

This is called parasitosis.

"When ceratioid males go looking for love, they follow a species-specific pheromone to a female, who will often aid their search further by flashing her bioluminescent lure. Once the male finds a suitable mate, he bites into her belly and latches on until his body fuses with hers. Their skin joins together, and so do their blood vessels, which allows the male to take all the nutrients he needs from his host/mate’s blood. The two fish essentially become one.

With his body attached to hers like this, the male doesn’t have to trouble himself with things like seeing or swimming or eating like a normal fish. The body parts he doesn’t need anymore—eyes, fins, and some internal organs—atrophy, degenerate, and wither away, until he’s little more than a lump of flesh hanging from the female, taking food from her and providing sperm whenever she’s ready to spawn."

Where to get good real leather shoes? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] TisButAScratch@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I can personally recommend Meermin from Mallorca (Spain). Top quality at a fair price.

Trump's Gulf in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] TisButAScratch@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

I like how “El golfo de Trump” is kinda a play on words in Spanish. "Golfo” literally means a gulf, but in Spain, “golfo” is also slang for someone who’s a scoundrel, a troublemaker, basically a shady guy. So "el golfo de Trump,” would be an appropriate way to call him a crook.

Spain is not a real place in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] TisButAScratch@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that is not true.

Spain is not a real place in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] TisButAScratch@lemmy.zip 68 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Spaniard here.

School starts at 9. Work can vary, but 8-9 is common. Typical breakfast is coffee and a pastry, but some people will have something savory instead. Not the most common, though.

Lunch is at 2pm. Restaurants usually take customers from 1 to 3.30 pm. If you have lunch at home, a proper meal is in order, but lately, less and less people can do this. So snacking for lunch during work days is becoming more common, sadly.

Dinner is at 9pm but there is a tendency to move this earlier, particularly when eating at home on work days. Restaurants take customers from 8 to 10pm, and a dinner out can last until past midnight.