Comments on: Hagfish filmed choking sharks with slime, and actively hunting fish [Repost] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/02/14/hagfish-filmed-choking-sharks-with-slime-and-actively-hunting-fish-2/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Gabriele Kerber http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/02/14/hagfish-filmed-choking-sharks-with-slime-and-actively-hunting-fish-2/#comment-14295 Gabriele Kerber Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:27:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6288#comment-14295 Those are amazing vidoes - .ove them! I never knew that hagfish are that interesting! Thanks for sharing :-) Those are amazing vidoes – .ove them! I never knew that hagfish are that interesting! Thanks for sharing :-)

]]> By: Brian Too http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/02/14/hagfish-filmed-choking-sharks-with-slime-and-actively-hunting-fish-2/#comment-14294 Brian Too Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:21:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6288#comment-14294 There's something I don't understand here. The predators, they react immediately. If the repellent mechanism were simply to block the gills, one would think the predator would have seconds to minutes to clear their gills. More than enough time to eat the hagfish. Instead it looks like the slime is an irritant, a toxin, or something actively repelling the predator. Yes? There’s something I don’t understand here. The predators, they react immediately. If the repellent mechanism were simply to block the gills, one would think the predator would have seconds to minutes to clear their gills. More than enough time to eat the hagfish.

Instead it looks like the slime is an irritant, a toxin, or something actively repelling the predator. Yes?

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