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Eels (mander.xyz)
submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 weeks 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] 83 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The tail is where the electric organs are The rest of the guts and stuff are all in the torso

[–] [email protected] 109 points 4 weeks 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] 56 points 4 weeks ago

Nature is amazing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Don't we love these organic interaction?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

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

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

Eels up inside ya

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 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 3 days ago (1 children)

He's building four coliseums

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

Ah that makes cents.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

*electric eel. Electric eels are not eels.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

Silly creature

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago

I think you are using voyager

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Skeedup baddup

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks 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] 15 points 4 weeks ago

This diagram is still a better love story than Twilight

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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] 6 points 4 weeks ago

This order is more closely related to catfish.

Catfished again!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

So this explains her:

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

Juna and her MASSIVE butt.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Immediately thought of this. 👍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why is the head part of the torso?

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

Probably because they evolved that way