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[–] 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    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...

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    Butt which end is positive vs negative?

    I need to know so I can recharge my battery..

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Head positive, tail negative (seriously)

    It's pulsed though, not sure how well it would charge a battery

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So, according to the diagram, the butthole of the eel is the positive electrode?

    Or did I miss something here?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Shoutout to whoever named eels. You nailed it, those things are eels.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    So that's why the eel made that face at the aquarium when I sarcastically said "nice tail, shitneck!"

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    But electric eels aren't eels

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    yes they do, but not as a useful, well defined category in biology.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    it's a morphological category, not cladistic.

    Like how "tree" is any plant with a thick robust trunk and branchy crown.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I like long butts and I can not lie

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  • All of taxonomy hinges on where the butt is.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sir Mix-a-Lot must have a lot to say about this picture.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I heard eels love neck kisses.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Everything after the butt is a tail?
    Are my legs tails?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    this is such a great sub. Thank you.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    A snake is technically sushi as it’s a shell around a cylindrical hole.

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