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National Hagfish Day 2024
Reason to celebrate: October 15, 2024 is National Hagfish Day.
Hagfish are broadly thought to be among the world’s ugliest living animals, made much more repugnant by their manufacture of viscous slime like a defense mechanism. Hagfish Day aims to advertise knowning that in character, beauty isn’t everything – which actually, the Hagfish is really a highly developed and specialized creature worth respect.
Daily Almanac for Wednesday, October 21, 2015
1805 - The Battle of Trafalgar occurred off the coast of Spain. The British defeated the French and Spanish fleet. 1849 - The first tattooed man, James F. O'Connell, was put on exhibition at the Franklin Theatre in New York City, NY. 1858 - The Can-Can ...
All for What? Evaluate Your Life Day
As a side note, October also boasts National Cat Day, National Hagfish Day, and National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work Day in case you need some teddy time at the office. But I digress..... At first blush, National Evaluate Your Life Day seemed like ...
11 hideous animals we should really learn to love
Why would anyone celebrate “Hagfish Day”? A hagfish is a repulsive-looking bottom-feeder that spends its life swarming over the rotten carcasses of whales, big fish, or anything else that has sunk to the briny deep. But the whole point in Hagfish Day ...
Hagfish filmed choking sharks with slime, and actively hunting fish
PS It's sad that this paper didn't come out on October 16th, which was designated as Hagfish Day. Reference: Zintzen, Roberts, Anderson, Stewart, Struthers & Harvey. 2011. Hagfish predatory behaviour and slime defence mechanism. Scientific Reports.
Slime produced by the homely hagfish could lead to...
In fact, hagfish are so cool that, according to a Smithsonian magazine blog, there's an annual Hagfish Day on the third Wednesday of October to remind people “that we can find beauty in the ugly and protect all ocean animals.” Negishi, whose PhD is in ...
Hagfish filmed choking sharks with slime, and actively hunting fish [Repost]
PS It's sad that this paper didn't come out on October 16th, which was designated as Hagfish Day. Reference: Zintzen, Roberts, Anderson, Stewart, Struthers & Harvey. 2011. Hagfish predatory behaviour and slime defence mechanism. Scientific Reports.
October 15, 2024 is also Ada Lovelace Day, Information Overload Day, Cake Decorating Day
