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[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Now, are the internal organs of an eel in its tail, looping around to the butt. Or are they all more or less in the head and the tail is just muscles and bone?

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 115 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This is a picture of a pretty small electric organ, so you can imagine the immense storage capacity eels have in their tails.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago

Nature is amazing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Don't we love these organic interaction?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can never feel bad about your organ being small if it's electric!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It may be small, but it can give a jolt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Eels up inside ya

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Thank you for that link. I was puzzled though when I opened it and saw a cartoon elephant.

And what's he doing, spending money?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He's building four coliseums

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ah that makes cents.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

*electric eel. Electric eels are not eels.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My all-time favorite fish is the ropefish. Just look how happy they are!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Silly creature

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Adorbs, but can't hold a candle to the garden eel. Mostly because they both live underwater.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

🎶 When a mouth opens wide, and there's more mouths inside that's a moray~🎶

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

🎶 When he bites on your thumb, and takes a chunk of your bum, that's a moray 🎶

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

🎶 Tails will swing, swim a swim a swim, swim a swim a swim, and you’ll sing Vita Bella 🎶

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

🎶 Tails will swing, swim a swim a swim, swim a swim a swim, and you’ll sing Eel-a Bella 🎶

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I think you are using voyager

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Should do legless lizard as well, i learned that to identify this creature i need to find their butthole.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So finally Have You Checked Your Butthole is the actual correct answer?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Skeedup baddup

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Glass lizards have external ears. Easier to spot those right behind the jaw. Their body/head segment is pretty distinctive once you've seen a bunch side by side. At first it's difficult, but with a little practice they become easy to distinguish, like Alligator vs Crocodile.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

This diagram is still a better love story than Twilight

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It looks like other eels don't necessarily follow the mostly tail body plan of electric eels; morays seem to be less than 50% tail by length

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that would be because electric eels are fish, not eels.

On my phone but see phylogeny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_eel

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

This order is more closely related to catfish.

Catfished again!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Juna and her MASSIVE butt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Immediately thought of this. 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why is the head part of the torso?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Probably because they evolved that way