This Eel has the Ability to Bite You TWICE

This Eel has the Ability to Bite You TWICE | Alien Ocean

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Videos:
How Fish Eat (in SLOW MOTION!) - Smarter Every Day 118: • How Fish Eat (in SLOW ...
Moray Eel Hunting: • Moray Eel hunting...
Valerie Taylor Befriends a Spotted Moray Eel: • Valerie Taylor Befrien...
Food Too Big...Why Knot?!: experiment.com/u/goJd5A
To knot or not? Novel feeding behaviours in moray eels: link.springer.com/article/10....
Raptorial jaws in the throat help moray eels swallow large prey: www.nature.com/articles/natur...
Other sources:
Phylogenetics and phylogeography of Moray Eels: openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi...
Eels Imitate Alien: www.nature.com/news/2007/0709...
Moray eels: The most cosmopolitan of reef fish, but why?: www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
Moray eels in knots over food: phys.org/news/2015-10-moray-e...
The fish that ties knots in its own body: www.bbc.com/earth/story/201510...

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@robblerouser5657 Жыл бұрын

If you're down by the sea and an eel bites your knee that's a Moray.

@discounthorde1944 11 ай бұрын

When the jaws open wide and there's more jaws inside, that's a Moray.

@anthonytonythegeek5561 11 ай бұрын

This thread is amazing

@lXlDarKSuoLlXl 10 ай бұрын

When you swim by a rock and an eel chomps your toes that's a Moray!

@unistrut 10 ай бұрын

Stick your hand in that crack? You will not get it back, that's a Moray!

@evelynlamoy8483 10 ай бұрын

well it lives in the reef, and has two sets of teeth that's a Moray.

@raenfox Жыл бұрын

When it skulks on a reef and has two sets of teeth, that's a moray.

@Jessica_Creates 9 ай бұрын

that’s a morayy

@76rjackson 4 ай бұрын

Bravo!

@kaitapper5753 3 жыл бұрын

For me, this channel's videos are the perfect mix of entertaining and educational.

@OctopusLady 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That's exactly what I'm going for ☺️

@jovidalmeida2801 Жыл бұрын

Yes

@JokeriYT Жыл бұрын

Yeah what a nice change ngl 🔥

@jhnchapa Жыл бұрын

Dito

@Mistfall254 Жыл бұрын

@@OctopusLady the mosasaurus had a 2nd set of jaws we think

@felixmervamee7834 Жыл бұрын

Progressively watching your older videos and goodness am I glad you kept on with this channel. I love your editing and narrating style.

@thegalantic6986 Жыл бұрын

Same here. Love these videos and have been binging all of them. Super educational yet still very funny

@ASHl33164 11 ай бұрын

I’m doing the same thing! And I love how the older vids are also basically just as well-done as the newer ones, but you can see the progress she’s made on her videos! (Sometimes when I watch older videos of other KZfaqrs, they aren’t as good. Not a problem here 😊)

@torinnbalasar6774 Жыл бұрын

That Morays are mostly harmless surprised me; my mom is from the Cayman Islands, and is absolutely paranoid about the idea of getting to close to one's hole and losing a limb, because apparently once they grab something, they do not let go, and the arrangement of the teeth make it very difficult to tear free.

@benny_lemon5123 11 ай бұрын

When its jaws open wide, And theres more jaws inside, Thats A-MORAYYYY

@KaitTheUnfunny Жыл бұрын

That song at the end is absolute *chefs kiss* perfection

@erictaylor5462 Жыл бұрын

When you swim in the sea and an eel bites your knee, that's a moray. My dad was stationed at the Azores and did a lot of scuba diving there. He say morays all the time but was never once bother by one.

@Achedb0b1 3 жыл бұрын

Finally a fun channel to learn marine biology with. : 3

@saladcaesar7716 Жыл бұрын

I can recommend you other funny and educational zoology channel if you want more. Not specifically marine biology but they do marine biology too. There is Lindsay Nikole, tier zoo, casual geographic

@lou9511 11 ай бұрын

@saladcaesar7716 definitely checking those out!! thanks for the recommendations 😊

@notjebbutstillakerbal Жыл бұрын

I love how you kept confusing the Moray Eel with the Xenomorph from ALIEN! XD

@Gr95dc Жыл бұрын

That song at the end caught me off guard 🤣 I subscribed for your most recent video and I'm now on my journey to watch some others and I'm glad this is the second I watched, it is reassuring this is a great channel. Once in awhile the algorithm actually suggest something good huh.

@mrexists5400 Жыл бұрын

wheeen the jaws open wide and there's more jaws inside, that's a moray. edit: 9:31 HA!

@Hei1Bao4 Жыл бұрын

The reference to the starfish episode was my favorite joke. 🤣

@ASHl33164 11 ай бұрын

This video is 2 years old so I’m sure you won’t see this compliment but, girl, I love your nails in that segment where you were turning the pages on your little guide on the wall 💅 I also LOVE your channel!!!

@giselle9917 Жыл бұрын

for those wondering about the whole tying their bodies into knots i believe that they do it to rip things apart and basically move the knot from the base of their body all the way to their head and use the knot itself to push against whatever it is and pull their head back through the knot thus giving them a lot of leverage by applying force and pulling away at the same time. i’m not a scientist obv, it’s just a theory :)

@benmcreynolds8581 Жыл бұрын

I live in Oregon and ever since growing up and going to the coast and seeing Wolf eels, I have been facinated with Wolf eels. They eat sea urchins. That's awesome. BTW omg I love that ending song bit 😂 lol 😆

@DeRien8 Жыл бұрын

Love your sense of humor, wish I had found this channel sooner! I teach kids at a marine science summer camp, but younger ages. Your videos are great inspiration

@yinnyari Жыл бұрын

It would be amazing to get SmarterEveryDay to collaborate to get slow-mo of them jaws.

@shibuyaneko5741 10 ай бұрын

now i'm thinking about that nyt article, "when an eel climbs a ramp to eat squid from a clamp, that's a moray." the pictures/gifs were captioned: "if an eel wants a squid that's on land, god forbid! that's a moray" "if the squid is too flat there's no problem with that, that's a moray" "if the squid is too big it still eats like a pig that's a moray" (if i made any mistakes that's because i typed those from memory)

@andikleist3128 Жыл бұрын

Raptoreal Pharyngeal Jaws for Moray Eels has the same energy as Big Pink and Hairy for Alaskan Bull Worms

@rachelhall5522 Жыл бұрын

When the jaws open wide, and there is another set inside that's a Moray~

@TheTaylorwailer 11 ай бұрын

When you’re swimming in the sea and an eel bites your knee, that’s-a Moray! 🎵

@benny_lemon5123 11 ай бұрын

When it chomps on your thigh and you bleed out and dye, That's a-morayyy 😂 lol

@MaryAnnNytowl 9 ай бұрын

Edutainment at its best, right here. Thank you for doing this! On an unrelated (but very important) note, please, please take time to tell your loved ones you love them EVERY chance you get. Tomorrow is not a given; you're never promised the next sunrise. ~ ~ ~ ~ "And don't let it break your heart. I know it feels hopeless sometimes. But they're never really gone as long as there's a memory in your mind." _Hold On To Memories_ Dave Draiman, Disturbed 💔💔 07 Jan 1984 - 02 Aug 2023 Rest in Peace, Matthew. Momma will miss you every day of my life! 😢

@KenColton 11 ай бұрын

Wowow. I found your channel recently and been slowly watching through your uploads backwards. I _cannot believe_ this was your second YT upload for this channel. It’s so good and has so much of your what makes current videos great still (unique personality and quality well researched, well presented info). I know creators tend to look back at their earlier stuff and cringe, but I hope you are still proud of this because it’s great and so impressive to me.

@nagh6997 3 жыл бұрын

Came here from reddit!! Great channel. Love your humor. Subbed!!

@OctopusLady 3 жыл бұрын

Reddit? Did my video get posted somewhere on Reddit??

@nagh6997 3 жыл бұрын

@@OctopusLady Somebody linked to your video on a comment thread of a Moray Eel post.

@redravenriot3650 11 ай бұрын

On petting wild moray eels, I have one thought. If you are okay with the risks, and you will not be hurting in return, then go nuts! Some people just don’t mind loosing fingers or noses or getting scars as a result of this behavior, in which case, I hope you have fun petting those eels!

@chillausmc Жыл бұрын

Ha! Moray tune at the end is priceless... yuss thankyou so much for that! made my day.

@nyuh Жыл бұрын

i love how much you committed to the bit lmao amazing video

@tysonnm5034 5 ай бұрын

I've known that they had a second pair of jaws for some time, but it is really cool to actually know why they have them.

@bakudeavor Жыл бұрын

RAPTORIAL🕺PHARYNGEAL💃JAWS🕺

@MichaelSplatkins 11 ай бұрын

1:27 Did anyone else think that this awesome Octopus Lady was about to flip the equation and Trogdor up a Moray Eel dragon?

@hedgehog3180 Жыл бұрын

I find it funny that jaws were such a good idea that evolution did it twice.

@GraeeWolff Жыл бұрын

That outro song was an incredible touch. I'm new to your channel and been binging all day. Amazing and funny stuff!

@DustyHoney Жыл бұрын

What I’ve learned: be prepared to lose a finger when petting moray eels.

@BoboZimbabwe Жыл бұрын

The song at the end... Perfection! 🥰

@LadyMagicka 6 ай бұрын

Love this channel! Thank you for being awesome!

@dannileigh6426 Жыл бұрын

I don't care how long you take per video, just that you please keep making more of this gold!

@ronbird121 Жыл бұрын

if you swimm with blood on your heel it was not just an eel. its a moray

@aircraftcarrierwo-class Жыл бұрын

When the jaws open wide and there's more jaws inside that's a Moray.

@TheArcherette Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you made this video! I really enjoyed watching it!

@Alex-kv9un 10 күн бұрын

I heard a story once about a sunken warship in the pacific. It's very popular among divers and scrappers and over the years has been being slowly dismantled for souvenirs and things like pre-atomic steel which is needed to construct MRI machines. Anyways one time this guy went down there and was swimming through the ship when he found a room full of many many large shiny brass artillery shell casings in a magazine. As he was sitting there wondering how these things had not been looted yet an absolutely massive Moray eel stuck his head around from behind the shells and started to stare him down. Thats why the shell casings had not been looted even by relatively impoverished locals: Because they had been claimed by this enormous eel which was now guarding them like a dragon.

@goodmorningladies2923 Жыл бұрын

Ending song was the best! Thanks for the videos! Keep it up!

@Iceflkn 6 ай бұрын

Ahhh! Your happy sounding voice and quick whitted humor just made my day! Thanks for all your work, little lady! 😁

@absyntheew7075 8 ай бұрын

I just adore you and your sense of humor! ❤

@PotooBurd 11 ай бұрын

I love the ending music video and the graphics for everything. I am poor at the moment but your channel is one of the few that I will dedicatedly comment on videos to boost them on the algorithm because your content breeds to be seen!

@sejdric Жыл бұрын

I am very glad this channel exists and only wish I could have been an OG subscriber

@anthonytonythegeek5561 11 ай бұрын

This video honestly helped me with a concept of a rpg monster (basically a Pokémon lol) that used different fish before, now I can just use Eels! Thanks Octopus lady! 😂

@Howtoeatrocks 10 күн бұрын

I am now especially more terrified of the eel I encountered rockhounding recently

@jameskrul8733 11 ай бұрын

Love your quirky presentation style.

@TwoHorndUnicorn Жыл бұрын

Recently found your channel, I like the way you give information and make it fun.

@stormycatmink Жыл бұрын

Well, AKTUALLY, the reason moray eels have jaws like a xenomorph is.. well, because a very clever artist/designer knew about moray eels and their fancy throat jaws and designed their titular creature after the eel. But you all knew that.

@unistrut 10 ай бұрын

The original Alien was designed by Swiss horror artist H.R. Giger, and in his book describing working on the original Alien film he describes it as a "long tongue like an anteater". The original design didn't even have teeth, it was a much more like a syringe. It also would have been difficult for Giger to have been inspired by the moray eel since Alien came out in 1979 and the extending action of the jaws wasn't truly understood until 2007.

@eesachariwala2145 11 ай бұрын

i remeber seeing an entire wall of coral at least 100m long or longer that was chock full of moray eels... creepy af

@robertsylvester3542 9 ай бұрын

Moray eels are my favorite type of fish and have been since I was 6 and learned who Jacque Cousteau was.

@IllMind3d Жыл бұрын

Here is a crazy thought.... As of typing this comment, you have like 1000x the subscriber count of the screenshot you showed! great vid

@LoverOfMuch 9 ай бұрын

i adore your editing style

@kellybraille Жыл бұрын

I love this channel so much

@therandomhuman Жыл бұрын

I am so glad I follow a bunch of marine biologists. I love your videos. You're so cool. Ever your tik toks 🥰🥰

@sciencenerd7639 2 ай бұрын

this is one of the best youtube videos ever

@Dewey_the_25U 11 ай бұрын

They are the Eclectic Eels! Not 'True Eels', but eels nonetheless.

@jeanneelise5118 Жыл бұрын

i'm far from being og, but i'm happy to be one of the "second season" when you have a million subscriber.

@escapedcryptid8017 5 ай бұрын

I have no idea where the alien bit came from but I loved it 😂😂😂 commititng to the bit is so goof

@Miles_Phantasmagoria 11 ай бұрын

Hey, you never have to apologize for taking awhile to make a video, esp given everything you seem to have gone through

@Patrisumbro 9 ай бұрын

That song at the end is a straight banger.

@DrachenGothik666 Жыл бұрын

This one had me chortling, but the song at the end had me snort-laughing. Hilarious! The Aliens franchise has to be my favourite series of films ever, along with The Matrix series, Star Trek and Star Wars.

@ClevertonFernandesGuimaraes 15 күн бұрын

Great knowledge. Thanks

@elenaengel7174 2 жыл бұрын

Go OL! This one was great--like the last one!

@AlexAnom420 Жыл бұрын

just subscribed to you this is a great channel... My daughters like to watch and learn... hopefully your channel grows exponentially 👍

@psamarasinghe Жыл бұрын

I loooove this channel ❤❤

@syrenet Жыл бұрын

have you ever held cooked fish or chicken in your hand and you pick parts of the meat and eat with your other hand? yeah that's what these guys are doing with their jaws. heard there is some eel lover guy who gave glizzys to the eels, but one day the eel mistook guys finger as glizzy, and being such glizzy gobler it grabbed the mans hand and just pulled of his finger with its second jaw. not bite off, there was no tissue cutting action involved it just pulled it off. thats some stronk thugging power they have.

@greilady Жыл бұрын

I died at the flip chart. Came back and died again with the outro song 😂 brilliant!!

@silverfawkes1219 Жыл бұрын

LOVE the Gumboot Chiton reference! Come out to Monterey, let's go diving!

@SoylentGamer 6 ай бұрын

I love moray eels, they're so sneaky n cute lil noodles!

@spencerparsch7685 Жыл бұрын

I’m. Glad Darla Shirman finally found her appreciation for fish.

@FeatheredCreature Жыл бұрын

I was not expecting the song at the end haha

@erictaylor5462 Жыл бұрын

I think we were all disappointed in 2020. I had a massive heart attack in 2020 and in the ambulance I wasn't thinking, "I might die" I was thinking "Oh no, they are taking me where all the Covid people are." I did die, but was resuscitated, and I did not get Covid. When my grandmother had a heart attack in 1979 she was in the hospital for weeks. I was in the hospital for 2 days.

@ShockedCaucasian Жыл бұрын

Been watching all of your videos, This is awesome content :))) subbed with the bell on

@Aldersnap 9 ай бұрын

10/10 song at the end great video

@Snukis 11 ай бұрын

When you're down by the sea and an eel bites your knee, that's a Moray.

@Felnyght 24 күн бұрын

I started watching for the learning, But i stayed for the comedy.

@ravioli7174 Жыл бұрын

I first head the background music some years ago, so as soon as I heard it I had to go on a little mission to find it due to the nostalgia trip haha!

@RaelNikolaidis 8 ай бұрын

“ if you put your hand in a crack and you don’t get it back, it’s a Moray….” 😊

@psykodactyle 11 ай бұрын

Always heard since I was a kid that you should never approach one because they're really territorial and that once they bite you their jaws lock up and don't let go So watching this you didn't really touch on any of this but from what you did say it seems like maybe I've been lied to all my life. Though maybe the second set of jaws could be an explanation for the jaw locking thing, since them biting you and pulling back could make you get stuck if they're not able to release this grip Idk, but cool video anyway! I've been going through and binging your #content 🤙

@NomadTL 4 ай бұрын

My kiddo needs you to know that she has managed to make a moray eel shadow puppet!

@user-ly3zb1vp8g 9 ай бұрын

The best way to end the video: Make a song about Moray Eel.💕💕

@the-frozen-reaper821 10 ай бұрын

1:18 I initially misread the captions as “you probably can’t tell, but this moray is relatively warm”, “you probably can’t tell, but this moray is pretty cold”, “you probably can’t tell, but this moray is very fresh” and lost my mind 😂

@unice5656 5 ай бұрын

I very nearly clicked away before seeing the a moray song and my life would have been poorer for it.

@johnvl6358 11 ай бұрын

Coolest Video Ever Please don't stop

@kaotikhorror 9 ай бұрын

You have an adorable channel lol!

@sxmvp 19 күн бұрын

All I'm getting from this video is that I can't befriend a Moray Eel and that deeply saddens me

@thefrenchselkie1401 Жыл бұрын

EXCELLENT eels

@henrysierra107 Жыл бұрын

I love this channel 😜

@YEs69th420 3 ай бұрын

A lot of fish have a second set of jaws, since once the food is in their mouth they still need a way to get it to their stomachs. Suction feeding won't really help there.

@mikikogunn866 Жыл бұрын

I’ve seen an octopus riding an eel and it blinded it with its ink afterwards

@spamletspamley672 11 ай бұрын

I think goblin sharks do a similar trick, and dragonflies and their nymphs, have it much easier to see. Then there's the bobbit worm, and the graboids from Tremors...

@magmafeesh1828 9 ай бұрын

8:48 hah! little did you know that THIS innocuous plug would ALSO date your video! the world is a strange and silly place... Edit: ok, the song at 9:22 really got me 🤣"when an eel reaches out and-a bites off your snout, that's a Moray!" has been a silly version we've sung in my fam for AGES, so hearing a full version devoted to the Moray is delightful!

@964cuplove Жыл бұрын

3:12 all right we did. understand that one…

@Techiepagan 9 ай бұрын

Watching in the summer of 2023, and the mention of twitter after worrying about dating the video is sweet and ironic.

@SingularCherubim 4 ай бұрын

You covered the "why" just fine, but I'm curious about the "how". Most creatures only have one set of jaws, however simple or complex they may be. Do morays have a (main) jaw hinge like a mammal's, with the extra bones going into the Raptorial Pharyngial Jaw instead of ears like ours?