Has anyone ever noticed that there are only two female smurfs(Smurfette and one of the smurf kids), out of 20+ characters on the show, and that they are also blue, much like the Asari? Also, I was reading about Angler fish on wikipedia, and this passage has interested me:
When scientists first started capturing ceratioid anglerfish, they
noticed that all of the specimens were female. These individuals were a
few centimetres in size and almost all of them had what appeared to be parasites attached to them. It turned out that these "parasites" were highly reduced male ceratioids. The presence of multiple males breeding with a single female makes this a good example of polyandry.
Thus, it is possible that the male Asari are in fact another species entirely, and we don;t recognize them.
More on Anglerfish:
At birth, male ceratioids are already equipped with extremely well-developed olfactory organs[9]
that detect scents in the water. The male ceratioid lives solely to
find and mate with a female. They are significantly smaller than a
female angler fish, and may have trouble finding food in the deep sea.
Furthermore, the growth of the alimentary canals of some males becomes stunted, preventing them from feeding.[9]
These features necessitate his quickly finding a female anglerfish to
prevent death. The sensitive olfactory organs help the male to detect
the pheromones that signal the proximity of a female anglerfish. When he finds a female, he bites into her skin, and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level.[9] The male then slowly atrophies, first losing his digestive organs, then his brain, heart, and eyes, and ends as nothing more than a pair of gonads,[10] which release sperm in response to hormones in the female's bloodstream indicating egg release. This extreme sexual dimorphism ensures that, when the female is ready to spawn, she has a mate immediately available.[11] Multiple males can be incorporated into a single individual female.
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