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<\/p>\nOn your next date, you might not want to try vomiting bioluminescent mucus,\u00a0but for male crustaceans called ostracods it works like a charm. The female\u00a0ostracods like it, say some researchers.<\/p>\n
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“When you’re there watching this display it’s spectacular. You can have up to nine species all in the same area displaying at similar times. I don’t know how the females do it, but they’re really good at figuring out who is their correct male,”\u00a0explained<\/a>\u00a0Emily Ellis. She and Todd Oakley are scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara who study ostracods in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n The bioluminescent mucus is vomited by the males\u00a0in what looks like strings of beads that glow for a short while and then fade out. Some of the strings are in patterns, vertical streaks, or horizontal trails. At about the 30-second mark in the video below, there is a similar kind of bioluminescence.<\/p>\n