This so-ugly-its-adorable species has been placed in the Shedd’s Polar Play Zone where, even with competition from perennial attention hogging penguins, the lumpsuckers are bound to turn heads.
In that way, lumpsuckers resemble sharks, whose skin is blanketed with flat V-shaped
. That’s where the similarity between the two fish ends, though. Denticles decrease drag so sharks can swim faster. Whereas lumpsuckers, well ...Lumpsuckers live on the bottom of the sea floor. They can be found in cold northern waters. Occasionally compared to golf or ping-pong balls, lumpsuckers have a rotund shape that’s the antithesis of the hydrodynamic sleekness typically associated with fish. They’re slow and not particularly adept swimmers, and it’s thought that their armored rows of toothy spikes provide a buffer during collisions. Sometimes, lumpsuckers are better off staying still, which brings us to ...The lumpsucker’s namesake suction cup on its underside helps this poor swimmer anchor itself in place.
That suction cup on their undersides is an evolutionary adaptation that allows lumpsuckers to cling to rocks, kelp or any other handy surface in order to keep from being swept away by ocean currents. This is also how males of the species anchor themselves in place for as many as eight weeks as they guard a nest of lumpsucker eggs.
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