The Mysterious Lifecycle of Eels That Science Still Does Not Know
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
- Did you know that when eels decide its time to mate, their stomachs dissolve and their reproductive organs form for the first time in its place? These creatures are complex, which is why scientists are eager to understand their unique life cycles.
Researchers have tracked eels to the Sargasso Sea where they are likely spawning, but we are still missing pieces to the puzzle. There is footage showing adult European eels sticking close to the sea floor on their long journey across the ocean, so the eels could be mating and hatching at deeper depths, below 500 meters, which are difficult to study.
Understanding the how eels spawn is important because they are a popular food around the world. To keep up with the demand, an eel smuggling ring has formed on the black market, which is a detriment to the wild eel population. - Наука та технологія
Eel MAFIA?! What?! Yes, more please.
This! Seconded.
I need to know about the eel mafia.
Yes they can't drop that and not explain further 😢
Eels really are slippery. And they are delicious.
There are mafia that smuggled eel due to its scarcity.. Its usually for countries and restaurant that used eels like japan. Can fetch high price
Freud after dissecting 400 eels : “THESE ARE ALL GIRLS”
"GO GET MORE"
@@alias7484 uh sir
@@USS-Texas3214"WHAT'S A GENTLEMAN GOTTA DO TO GET SOME EEL DI-"
Freud dissecting 400 eels couldn’t find reproductive organs. No men or women, I bet people take offense to this in today’s world. How dare we assume they have no reproductive organs, they just haven’t decided what to be yet
Well he was wrong like 70% of the time so..
Well as Sam O’ Nella said…
Actually, I don’t think I should quote this one.
"WHAT'S A BROTHER GOTTA DO TO GET SOME EEL DI-"
@@thegoose5294 haha, close enough :D
Ah is that the video that got taken down? Shame, I never got to see it
"IS THAT FISH JENGA?!"
WHAT'S A [Classified] GOTTA DO TO GET SOME EEL D
"THESE ARE ALL GIRLS"
"Sir...I"
"GO GET MORE"
WHAT'S A [redacted] GOTTA DO TO GET SOME EEL DI-
@@alejogomez3496 I think I'm gonna close UA-cam now...
This man made culture back then
"Secret Lives of Eels" sounds like a Pixar knockoff movie
🤭
Right next to plan bee
Eh na sound more like.l regular animal documentary
Exactly like The Secret Life of Pets.
walter mitty
Sigmund Frued didn't find any mating organs because it wasn't their mating season lol. So he just butchered a ton of them for nothing.
Not for nothing......it gave him purpose while on Cocaine.
He probably made delicious grilled eel after
So fishes get reproductive organs only when their mating season is around wtf?
It’s an understandable mistake, most animals have their reproductive organs somewhere all the time. And they’re not that hard to distinguish either.
Of course he was searching for their genitals. Classic Freud.
Sam cursed us with eel knowledge
The scientists are still eel-informed
It’s 1AM, I have to work tomorrow, and now I’m about to go down a rabbit hole and learn about eels
I did this once with European Bisons
There is this one theory that says theres a giant "master eel" there in the middle of the atlantic that produces all the eels.
@@incorrectformat Wow
😮
@@incorrectformatyes I confirm, I am the eel's left testicle
SAME LOL
My lawyer advised me not to make this reference.
Freud always gets mentioned in the craziest stories
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
“THESE ARE ALL GIRLS!”
“GO GET MORE.”
That’s the thing though they couldn’t find ANY reproductive organs. Because they don’t even develop the organs until the end of their life cycle. So it’s more like
“They’re all eunuchs!!”
YOU CANT JUST SAY EEL MAFIA IS REAL AND THEN NOT TELL US MORE
One must ask. What does an individual have to do to find an eel’s reproductive organ?
Find them at the right stage of life, they only develop reproductive organs late in adulthood
WE MUST KNOW IT ALL
Smooth reference.
Their unique trait could make you gain
wealth, fame and power.
To reproduce them in a man controlled environment & produce more eels for consumption. Currently, they are grown in farms
Well... They sure are Eelusive
Where are the other mating grounds? Pacific is near Okinawa, I think. How many more are there? Japanese eels are a big deal. As are English eel pies.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes! I want to know more!!!
i mean, they don't know so ...
That's easy, here you are:
Most of the video is bs. It's absolutely not a secret to anyone. There are even specific names for every single phase of eel's metamorphosis. The theory about Sargasso Sea is almost 150 years old and was scientifically proved not that long ago. (Freud did his experiments with eels in his youth. People figured everything out a little bit later)
Flashbacks to the Sam O’Nella video 💀
A moving ocean is such a poetic concept
"Is that eel legal?"
"Yes"
"YOU'RE UNDER ARREST!"
A Swedish politician was actually caught eel fishing. He didn't step down
Eelaborate joke
'WHATS A N-huh? What do you mean I can't finish my quote?"
When the baby eels get big enough, they start swimming in schools to learn how to eel.
Its a very important stage of their lives, and is marked with uncertainty and excitement alike.
They call this stage eelementary
God I love how many o' nella references there are here.
The fact that eels have more privacy than us😂
They reproduce via Bluetooth
Yes please they sound fascinating
Yes, I want to know more ! I teach marine biology to high school students and caught an announcement when the Sargasso Sea was identified as their breading ground. The Sargassum is such a miraculous, floating jungle... I want to know more !
Mmmmm. Breaded eels.
I have never wondered about eels - but now I NEED to know everything about them!
You’re telling me that we as a species discovered planets that rain molten glass before finding out where eels come from?
"you're gonna sleep with the humans tonight if you don't give me my money Jimmy"
They probably have a similar reproductive cycle as other eels.
Eels: we do a little trolling
2022 - scientists tracked silver eels to their spawning grounds, where the females release millions of eggs that are externally fertilized by the make eels.
You mean to call these Schrodinger's eel?
Want to know my secret? Eel never tell you!
American Eels also spawn in the Sargasso Sea. They tend to migrate to areas closer to the Americas (natch) but there is some occasional overlap in their territories. They likely have a common ancestor.
Bro we humans need to Lock In, we're getting tricked by literal Eels.
Imagine they find a cube shaped with fire particles around it and a tiny spinning eel inside
In germany we have something similar to the Bermuda triangle: Bielefeld. European eels may not look like the kraken or like a kelpie, but in their reproduction they are just as mythical. if they originate from SOMEWHERE its gotta be Bielefeld for sure
"Eel mafia" Yana was onto something making the Leech twins 😜
I was looking for this comment 😂
Sargasso Sea? That energies me more than eels now (it’s 3:30AM and am gonna google it now)
Casually dropping EEL MAFIA at the end is engagement genius lol
Yes please educate us !!
Oh, it WOULD have been Freud to be interested in this one
Please give me more about these fascinating eels 🙌🏼
It’s all fun and games until Slimey Bulger and the crew shows up 😂
Current Scientists: "we be trackin' eels and sheet, is da eel mafia"
They are so "eelusive"
The Secret Life Of Pets? Nah we got The Secret Life Of Eels
it is baffling to know that Sigmund, THE Sigmund Freud have been studying eels
You left out the coolest part! Juveniles are literally crystal clear except for their eyes.
In the Hudson River estuary, they are called Glass Eels. They also spawn in the Sargasso Sea. SAY - how do know we are getting back New York ells after the spawning and not some immigrant European eels sneaking in? .^_^.
No way so your telling me theres an eel capone
And he got catched by eal irs
I like how it's exact opposite from salmon's life circle
Yes please! I remember once snorkeling with an adult eel in a lake in Maine, about 15 years ago. He or she just went about their business. Actually very beautiful to watch swimming. 🙂
"ARE YOU PLAYING FUCKING FISH JENGA-"
"NOOO"
Oh nooo terrorist spotted
Yes i want to know more i find ocean life amazing even though im afraid of ocean but i find ocean life astonishing.
Same ❤
Eels are way cooler than they’re ever given credit for
Drunk History missed out on this one 🎉😂 this is pretty cool
When you talk about Europe why did you feel the strong need to make the last an african woman lol??
Being triggered by someone being black. oof.
Does it really make you that fragile?
Black scientist.. yea right
Definitely need to know more about eel etymology!
Eels are incredibly commited to avoiding voyeurs. They're a private, dignified species. And also prudes.
I did some digging into this, apparently eels of most kinds including the glass eels we eat come from the wild. The reason why it's so hard to study them is because some eels are hermaphrodite and some are born male and when they mate they turn female. Unlike a lot of species of fish they can multi-produce instead of breeding once then dying off, they breed continuously. Japanese studies have figured out only 10% on breeding commercially because of the difficulty of raising them to maturity. The liquid egg and multiple breeding patterns make it hard to study.
You had me at eel mafia. 😁
Yes keep these videos and shorts coming!
I'm captivated and you have my attention please continue.
i love how this video tells us the things we dont know that they also dont know
So mysterious! Please tell more~😊
This is wild! We need to know more!
Baby eels have been born and live in English rivers for centuries. Elvers, as they’re known used to be a very popular pub meal.
Growing up in a small town in central Italy some of the best memories are of my friends and I walking several miles down the valley to the small stream to fish for eels and hunt lizards. No cars, no phones,no food, no beer. Just a bunch of us enjoying wild berries, figs, wild cherries and roasted eel.
What if they just evolve randomly from a worm to a eel
Poor freud, all those wasted eels. The reason he couldn't find reproductive organs is because the eels literally don't have any until right before they mate. The organs form, they do their thing, and then they die.
It is probably nature's secret reboot sauce and it doesnt want us learning about it.
When the Devs forget to install a born function...
I knew about the difficult identifying their genders but I had no idea how cool they really were. I'd love to see more content about this.
Eel lore goes CRAZY.
love to see that im not the only one who immediately thought of sam o'nella
Eels up inside ya, findin' an entrance where they can.
Yes! More videos, please.
This is the kind of stuff that makes me love science
This is outdated. They recently had at least one case of eels mating in habitat. I’ll see if I can find the article and post it below
Interesting video ❤
"Mama how did i spawn?"
*_wouldnt the scientists love to know lol_*
It’s interesting because I think one of the big arguments against Giant Eels Sea Serpents being a thing is that there’d be giant larvae swimming around also, and they look so much different from regular eels
I have found baby eels. Like many terms, “eel” covers a lot of different species. Many countries have “eels”.
Definitely wanna know more 😊
What’s even crazier is that they found out that the European and American eel can hybridise. Two species from different parts of the world somehow managed to get together and produce offspring in the wild. That hybrid would be the rarest fish in the world due to it being completely natural and only a few individuals would exist.
More, please.
No no, you can't just drop the bombshell of an Eel Mafia and then not elaborate in great detail.
They really value their privacy
"Eel mafia" looks like that eel is italian
Keep this up and the scientists will be mentally eel
Yes, I would like to know more. How fascinating!
Yes please, more information. 🎉
I am now suddenly very interested in eels. I now have lots of questions.
PLEASE MORE ABOUT EELS
Oooooo I’d like more info this looks interesting!
We posted another video today!
What they don't tell you about eels going back to the sea, is that a lot of time they wait until a big thunder storm hits the area and casually crawl overland from their pond to the next river.
Scientists actually just found the place they are spawning in autumn 2022. Before that we knew that it was in the Sargasso, but not exactly where.
Yo nice video. You have a nice speaking voice.
You can’t tell me there is a real eel mafia and not have a video posted about it!