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To: carranza2 who wrote (7135)	4/25/2005 10:27:46 AM
From: John Hayman	Respond to of 12231

Thanks C2, good to have some interesting reading. I'll check it out. John

To: carranza2 who wrote (7135)	4/25/2005 3:48:58 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12231

That was interesting C2. I don't read books and that was a gripping little excerpt and description. I'll make do with that and my own memories of boats. Meanwhile, the dreaded hagfish. <Did you know it can tie itself into a knot? And obviously untie itself as well?> Yes, that's how they get rid of their slime. They poke their head through a loop, tighten it up and slide through the knot, leaving the slime behind. In the old days, I found a video clip of it in cyberspace, or maybe it was just a photo. <A lowly hagfish, yes, a single one of them, can kill a shark.> I'm not surprised. <It has no family tree--descended directly from only God knows what and unchanged for millions upon millions of years.> I think it descended from a slug. There are sea slugs and land slugs. <It's survival mechanism is simply amazing. A row of darkish spots along the side which excrete a substance that when mixed with seawater turns into gallons and gallons of foul-tasting slime. A shark eats a hagfish, is overwhelemed by the slime choking off all its bodily functions. Sharks don't fiddle with hagfish. No other fish has developed a means of dealing with its slime so it has prospered for eons. A perfect animal. Not a single fish in the ocean can attack it and live. > Our son had a turtle. I though it would like to eat a slug as it ate pretty well anything. It took a bite and then spent half an hour trying to get the slime off its face and away from its breathing holes. I checked out the slug and indeed they exude great amounts of slime, which when mixed with water form a hagfish-like suffocating slime. I poked it with a stick and I could see heaps of liquid come out of the skin where touched. No wonder they don't bother with a shell, like snails have. I thought they are just snails who forgot their shell. The hagfish has obviously taken the idea a lot further. Mqurice