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The Devil Inside

Remember our adorable little friend, the sea angel (Clione limacina)?

This is the sea angel in hunting mode.

When feeding and hunting, C. limacina can rapidly shoot out three pairs of buccal cones which latch onto its prey (and fellow pterapod), the sea butterfly. These cones are lined with adhesive ridges and excrete a viscous material that help prevent the sea butterfly from escaping.

Then, as C. limacina holds the captured sea butterfly in front of its mouth, it uses specialized hooks to extract its prey’s soft parts to be devoured. Mmmm…heavenly! 

 Image source: Alexander Semenov

Reference:Hermans and Satterlie. 1992.

-CHUCKS THIS OUT-

Pirate captain who’s been on a decades long search for the elusive merfolk he swears up and down he has seen and knows is out there yet no one believes him and thinks him an utter drunken fool.. comes face to face one night on the dock with a curious mermaid who’s developed an interest with the little man from observing him from afar at the water’s surface.

The fascination for the other is mutual between the two.

Gabe belongs to @muppetmimikyu