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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week 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] 82 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] kamenlady 115 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

Nature is amazing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Don't we love these organic interaction?

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

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

[–] Opisek 1 points 1 week ago

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

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

Eels up inside ya

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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] 7 points 1 week ago

*electric eel. Electric eels are not eels.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Silly creature

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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

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

I think you are using voyager

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Skeedup baddup

[–] Bytemeister 4 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

This diagram is still a better love story than Twilight

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week 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

[–] somebodysomewhere 9 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

This order is more closely related to catfish.

Catfished again!

[–] ZILtoid1991 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] yamanii 4 points 1 week ago

Juna and her MASSIVE butt.

[–] RaoulDook 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] JoeKrogan 2 points 1 week ago

Immediately thought of this. 👍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is the head part of the torso?

[–] captainlezbian 4 points 1 week ago

Probably because they evolved that way