My favorite things

So here is an object that combines two of my favorite things in the world, knitting and weird sea creatures.  The pattern for this guy comes from a book called Amigurumi Knits by Hansi Singh .  The author gives instructions for knitting different organisms including bugs, vegetables and sea creatures.  It is so nerdy I really can't help but love it.

There are so many things to love about anglerfish.  1. They are sooooo ugly.  2.  They are mysterious and live in the deepest darkest depths of the ocean. 3.  Anglerfish have a lure that sticks out in front of them with a glowing ball on the end.  The end of the lure glows due to the presence of symbiotic bacteria, how the bacteria find the fish and are incorporated is unknown. Meals can be few and far between on the bottom of the ocean; the lure tricks other fish into coming closer to investigate and once they get within range and anglerfish attacks and swallows them whole!  4.  Male anglerfish are lazy!  Have you ever thought that you had a parasitic male in your life?  Well finding a mate on the bottom of the ocean is hard and finding food on the bottom of the ocean is also hard so male anglerfish have solved both these problems.  Male anglerfish are small and their sole purpose in life is to find a female, once he does he latches on to her, his blood stream fuses with hers and he loses most of his organs. Each  female can carry around multiple males.  The presence of a parasitic male on this knitted anglerfish is one of my favorite things about it.