The curious and naive fish, thinking it is looking at an easy meal, comes over to gobble the antenna when the rest of the worm makes its presence known.
Freshwater clams do something similar but for a different reason. When they are ready to reproduce, they grow a small, fleshy knob that looks a bit like a cricket or minnow on the lip of their shell. When a sunfish investigates and attempts to mouth the "cricket", the clam blows a jet of larval clams into its mouth. The larvae clams embed in the fish's gills for the next part of their life-cycle.
If something is too good to be true...
"60 Days Free DeNile Prime". "Free Cheese". "Something for nothing". "A gift from the Goobermint."
Just sayin'.
There is no free anything in this life, except the free gift of salvation from God. All other things have a cost, whether paid by the giver or the receiver.
ReplyDeleteI will be reminded again tomorrow (DV) of the enormous cost of my salvation.
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