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[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 weeks 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] 84 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The tail is where the electric organs are The rest of the guts and stuff are all in the torso

[–] [email protected] 115 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

Nature is amazing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Don't we love these organic interaction?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Eels up inside ya

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

He's building four coliseums

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Ah that makes cents.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

*electric eel. Electric eels are not eels.