Posted on 09/10/2019 3:49:44 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
An 8 ft. long eel that has never been found until now.
Yep, the planet is “losing species at an alarming rate” alrighty. lol
My uniformed guess is that Rays use it for defense and have bigger enemies.
Eels use it for offense (feeding) and their prey is small.
Oh and so now that these eels have gotten sufficient public attention, they TOO shall run against Biden, Warren and others in the Democrat Primary....*sigh*
Any animal (except for humans) that cannot learn from repetitive experience is a dead animal. There are birds that can solve complex puzzles much faster than the average human.
A friend of mine had two horses and we would go out and ride them. After they had their fill of us, the horses would run alongside the barb wire fence, and twist their head/neck to the side, attempting to throw us off onto the fence. They knew exactly what they were doing. They weren't trying to really harm us (they could have easily thrown us off), they were just trying to make their point very clear. After we got off them, they both ran to the end of the field by a tree, and reared up braying loudly. They were happy to be free (of us) and enjoying themselves.
There are insects in the desert who, even if they had a brain, it would be too small for us to see it, and yet they can fly miles away from their underground burrow (which they cover up when they leave), and return to that exact spot in an endless ripple of identical sand pebbles. No human can do that without mechanical or electronic aid.
Yep, it’s the amps that kill you. A Taser puts out 300,000 volts but the current (amps) is very small by design.
An amp will kill you if applied long enough.
what happens when you breed an electric eel with a shark?
Not sure?
But I’ve heard that if you cross a crocodile with an abalone, you get a crock of baloney!!!
Tuna in for the sharking fin of an ending.
And always remember; you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish!!!
Does it come with a USB port?
CC
I always chuckle at your signature.
Does it come with a USB port?
A? B? Mini? Micro B? 3.0? 4.0?...
Who can keep up?
And I still think they max at 5VDC.
But Apple must have one with 500VDC?
Electric rays sit on the bottom and zap fish that swim over, then swallow them while they are stunned.
I’m thinking the discrepancy is because one of the values is wrong, or the ray’s is more due to greater surface area.
I don’t know, though.
Approximately 90% of all creatures that have existed on Earth have gone extinct.
There are 8.7 million SPECIES of creatures on Earth at the present time (that we have discovered and named).
There are more we haven't. The deep oceans and deep underground we know very little about.
The number of total 'creatures' or 'life forms' on the Earth is really a big unknown.
The facts seem to be that it is necessary for certain (and even many) species to go extinct in order for 'life' to continue.
I liked the sarcasm in your comment.
I am glad you added that footnote to your post. :)
Don't you love those nature programs that show you the vast expanses of ocean and the unexplored jungles, mountains and deserts all filled with copious forms of life and always some newly discovered species!?
They're beautiful ... and then they say near the end "but it's all disappearing cuz Globull Warming!"
Well...its not just the amperage, its where the eel decides to plug onto your body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TQPJDRiswc
Good thing that “Swamp king” had a rope around his waist to allow his friends to quickly drag him out of the cess pool he was exploring and a good thing they had a machete. As someone comments too bad that his friends were fishing and using him for bait! File under “Fun things I did with a machete before I became a Eunuch!”
And all this time I thought Amos Moses was a folk tale like Hansel and Gretel?
Guess there needs to be some truth to keep it interesting!!! So interesting I may not sleep well after watching that particular event, thank you!
Now everyone blamed his old man
For making him mean as a snake
When Amos Moses was a boy
His daddy would use him for alligator bait
Tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp
Alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou..
Now the folks around south Louisiana
Said Amos was a hell of a man
He could trap the biggest, the meanest alligator
And he’d just use one hand
That’s all he got left ‘cause an alligator bit it
Left arm gone clear up to the elbow
How do you breed an electric eel with a shark?
VEEEEEEERY carefully!
Wow!
Looking for more info about that video, it appears to originate from China?
And that is very good!!!
Because I’m safer here in DuPage county!!!
Also found this:
Eel is always served cooked. Why is that?
...Eels’ blood is poisonous...
http://archive.boston.com/business/articles/2011/07/04/eel_is_always_served_cooked_why_is_that/
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