Worse in snails
eel butts
Submitted 10 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Moidialectica@hexbear.net 1 hour ago
Im halfway sure they digest the shit again, since they’re so small they can’t properly digest it
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 hour ago
Pig poop balls vs. snail poop head
ignotum@lemmy.world 43 minutes ago
Everything after the butt is a tail?
Are my legs tails?Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
they also arnt EELs, they are a type of knifefish, which are a sister clade to CATFISH, which also can produce electricity in some species.
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
And fish don’t even exist.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 3 hours ago
yes they do, but not as a useful, well defined category in biology.
over_clox@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Butt which end is positive vs negative?
I need to know so I can recharge my battery.
piranhaconda@mander.xyz 9 hours ago
Head positive, tail negative (seriously)
over_clox@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
So, according to the diagram, the butthole of the eel is the positive electrode?
Or did I miss something here?
magic_window@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Piranhaconda knows what’s up
Gladaed@feddit.org 4 hours ago
If it created a lot of energy it would need to much food. The beauty of electric defense is that very little energy deposited has an outsized effect, by attacking your electronics directly potentially even killing.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
recharge my battery
*buttery
Oh wait that’s already a word. Hang on is that why eels are slippery?
yakko@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
So that’s why the eel made that face at the aquarium when I sarcastically said “nice tail, shitneck!”
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
But electric eels aren’t eels
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That’s not what their name says.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
e. eels
I know it’s more than two, but you can do it!
NerdInSuspenders@leminal.space 8 hours ago
Sir Mix-a-Lot must have a lot to say about this picture.
OpenStars@piefed.social 7 hours ago
B-b-b-b-but(t)!?⁉️‼️
oce@jlai.lu 8 hours ago
I heard eels love neck kisses.
boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world 14 minutes ago
All of taxonomy hinges on where the butt is.