Shoutout to whoever named eels. You nailed it, those things are eels.
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2025
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Whoever named the mountain chicken is sitting uncomfortably in the back hoping no one brings it up
Worse in snails
That diagram isn't making sense. The tube goes directly from the stomach to the anus? Everything else is just ignored? Either I'm missing something or this is AI slop.
No, it's noy AI, you can search the sbail abatomy in the web, and you'll see, that it is the correct anatoumy for this genre of snails
Probably doesn't need as much intestine as we do, so the length of that tube is sufficient. Or perhaps most of the ingestion is done in the stomach.
Or the diagram coyld be simplified for illustrative purposes, like how our human models focus on internal organs and dont often draw, say, the visceral sack they sit in, and the webbing that weaves our organs together so precisely that surgeons can jiggle us on the table to slot them back into their places.
And yeah, that is where the snail anus is...
So, next question. If a snake had arms, would they be up near his head or closer to its butt? Like is it mostly torso or neck?
They're like 1/3 neck 2/3 torso! You can actually kinda see where the neck turns into the torso because of the difference in thickness, I marked it with a green arrow here:
It's a lot easier to see in person though since the chest moves when they breathe so you can be sure that's where the lungs start.
I like long butts and I can not lie
this is such a great sub. Thank you.
No, ty.
All of taxonomy hinges on where the butt is.
A snake is technically sushi as it’s a shell around a cylindrical hole.
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.
And fish don't even exist.
yes they do, but not as a useful, well defined category in biology.
it's a morphological category, not cladistic.
Like how "tree" is any plant with a thick robust trunk and branchy crown.
Everything after the butt is a tail?
Are my legs tails?
the tail is part of the spine, our tail ends BEFORE the butt
Maybe your leg-tails are, but my leg-tails appear to be separate from my spine
Butt which end is positive vs negative?
I need to know so I can recharge my battery..
conventional current positive or electron flow positive?
Head positive, tail negative (seriously)
It's pulsed though, not sure how well it would charge a battery
You just need capacitors.
So, according to the diagram, the butthole of the eel is the positive electrode?
Or did I miss something here?
That "did I miss something here?" really instills an image of you standing at a workbench with a live electric eel, various electronics parts, and an IKEA instruction booklet in hand trying to get this thing to charge your phone.
I'm getting "If you're not sure, call IKEA's help center and one of our friendly associates will help you to set up your new furniture in no time!" picture vibes
Well, we can't just release them without a full battery. That would be rather cruel.
Piranhaconda knows what's up
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.
The water also reduces the electrical resistivity of skin so less power is needed to be harmful (at least for humans, some fish and reptiles are a different story)
recharge my battery
*buttery
Oh wait that's already a word. Hang on is that why eels are slippery?
So that's why the eel made that face at the aquarium when I sarcastically said "nice tail, shitneck!"
But electric eels aren't eels
Are there magnetic eels?
Only if they're travelling at relativistic speeds.
That's not what their name says.
e. eels
I know it’s more than two, but you can do it!
Sir Mix-a-Lot must have a lot to say about this picture.
B-b-b-b-but(t)!?⁉️‼️
I heard eels love neck kisses.