The Hagfish
Its Amazing Adaptation:The Hagfish’s amazing adaptation is that it produces slime. It produces slime to protect themselves from predators including sharks, big fish and whales. They produce slime mostly when stressed. The push water in there stomach organs that creates thick slime. When other sea animals go to eat them hey produce the slime. When the animals taste it, it poisons the animal and they go away but the animal doesn’t die or get sick. |
References:
Monterey Bay Aquarium, www.montereybayaquarium.org, 12/11/2013
Pacific Hagfish, www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pacific_hagfish, 11/11/2013
Google home page, hagfish scientific name, 11/11/2013
Monterey Bay Aquarium, www.montereybayaquarium.org, 12/11/2013
Pacific Hagfish, www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pacific_hagfish, 11/11/2013
Google home page, hagfish scientific name, 11/11/2013