Who knows, maybe they thought eels came from seeds or spores like plants lmao

​@@ForestFire369 We could call them sporay eels!!!!!!

I mean,, they weren’t wrong

@@DexyD20 Nice. 😎

While that is a strange answer some organism do revert to their Larval stage and start the process all over!

It is nice to have some mysteries and fun when those mysteries can get resolved.

We've known the general "the come from near the Sargasso" for around a century though. Some European scientist got a bunch of ship captains to periodically let down nets, and send him the catch and the location so he could do a survey of what was going through which sections of the Atlantic. The conclusion (after sifting through several years of results) was the determination that their spawning grounds are in the Sargasso. They were recently caught _on film,_ but that's about it. We've known where European Eels come from for around a century.

We still don't know. We have never seen the mate

@@thanhavictus and the egg

@@thanhavictus Leave them some privacy, you pervert.

Technically CR (Critically Endangered) is the second closest category to Extinct, not the closest. Extinct in the Wild is the category between CR and E. I work with CR species in the wild and have had to write up some of the IUCN species descriptions.

@@earthknight60 there is no distinction between extinction in the wild and full extinction for the european eel since it can't be bred in captivity.

@@Ass_of_Amalek That's irrelevant to the discussion of IUCN species threat level categories.

​@@earthknight60iucn categories are often not nuanced enough and this is another example of that.

According to naturalist Gerald Durrell, elvers (the stage of young eel that migrates from the ocean back to inland waters) don't just migrate over land when it rains -- he tells of seeing columns of the little critters writhing their way over the dusty ground on the Greek island of Corfu on a dry sunny day when he was a boy.

Because humans are gullible. Slap the word delicacy onto anything and it becomes "special" and exclusively for the wealthy. Then classist fools fall for the specialness of the delicacy and pay ridiculous amounts of money for it without using their brains. We may be great apes, but so much of our behavior is still "monkey see, monkey do."

Cause they are rare or expensive ig. Kinda like how lobsters or black caviar were the poor person's food in the past due to being abundant, but got fished so much that now they are a delicacy ig.

Able to spend money on expensive, pointless things. Is part of showing off their wealth. Most people will be respectful and not tell the emperor he is not wearing clothes.

​​@@NexuJin That's not being respectful, that's participating in delusion based on fear and threat of repercussion.

I feel like part of it is also because the belief in medicinal or mystical properties of it. People eat shark fin soup not only for the status and rarity but also the (unproven) properties like anti aging, combating disease, restorative and regeneration, etc. If anything is to blame, ultimately it’d be how we center humanity as the leading point in our imaginative reality/socio-construct rather than how it is in actuality. This is why diamond which consist of one of the most abundant element in the universe (that we could even create in a lab) is much more expensive than gold simply because of supply, demand and some manipulation

Science isn't a collection of unassailable facts. It's a method. Some things can be safely extrapolated, some cannot. Science has discovered a great deal about and solved quite a few mysteries about say, black holes, without directly observing specific phenomenon. The effect the phenomenon had combined with other direct observations led to a discovery with no direct observations. If black holes interest you I'd suggest looking them up, there's too much to go into here. My point is, you're sort of correct, but not empirically.

Hi marine biologist/ zoologist, I'm somebody also interested in the field and just recently did an internship at an aquarium here in Finland, which, coincidentally, happens to be the only place in the world where a yellow eel has turned into a silver eel naturally, or well, spontaneously. I managed to watch as scientist from the Netherlands weighed, drew blood, did ultrasounds and measured some of the eels at the aquarium. So maybe, in the future, they might spot the signs of an eel turning silver! And then impregnate that eel with sperm from male eels from the research lab for eels in the Netherlands. So we might see the whole process soon! Hopefully, of course! Then science can't say that it's still a mystery lol (Yes the eel mamas were quite big haha, the scientists let me handle one of the specimens, very cool experience. Would recommend eel touching at least once in your marine biologist life!)

Whatever dude...no one cares whether you are a marine or arse or whatever biologist...they are tasty...thats all that matters to me.

​@@_klc_ When a marine biologist / zoologist says, it's a must to touch a eel, it's ok but when I tell woman it's fun to touch my yellow eel, they call it seksual harassment. ☹

@@sbtig9637 I know I'm not OP, but just wanted to reply to this! They are tasty, they are indeed, but at least here in the Baltic sea the population is dying. If we don't research how they reproduce, the eels we know and love (even by their taste, yes) will be gone

Now THAT is a weird flex 🤔

Okay. I love how frustrated he got over eel genitals, but the fact it is an opera makes me want to go to the opera for the first time in my life.

The more and more you look into eels, the weirder and weirder every story gets.

Was this opera written by Skippy The Magnificent?

@@oakenshadow6763 no. No. No no no. Nothing will ever get me to opera. Well. Maybe stripper opera. Maybe.

the people who put all animals in pies.

Truely, not their finest moment

Hungry people.

English food is so ...omitted... that something/anything had to be better than what they last ate. 😜

you know they recreated mammoth meat by biotechnology just to know how mammoth tasted... Humans are no different from a slime mold by nature.

It's that they had never been observed mating for one thing ,, from a radio program a few days ago coincidentally , otherwise I know nothing about eels much until this video.

yea this is mostly all clickbait and old news. It's not like it was all a mystery. But this guy makes it sound like we knew nothing until this recent "study". That's completely wrong.

@@philip5940 We still haven't observed them mating. And I wouldn't want to.

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Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. 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Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). 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Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.” (2:136 / Translated by Community) Salam (Peace)

About to make the same exact comment. Nothing new in this vid. Clickbait.

Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.” (2:136 / Translated by Community) Salam (Peace)

“FiRsT”

@@twinturboray about the Branteviks eel, it's true the exact age couldn't be proven because they couldn't find the ear-bone. In another case of well eel ( Urshult eel), the age however could be proven to be minimum 88+ yo. The fact, that eels in centuries have been kept in wells as natural filters is indisputable though.

@@twinturboray strange to be called "kid" as 80yo.

Are we sure twinturbo didn't have a eel crawl up his butt?

Bombi Bitt!!!🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🦩

@@lise1255 A very famous book, Swedish. Author: Fritjof Nilsson Piraten. It's also a famous serie for TV. The now EXTREMELY famous actor Stellan Skarsgård, played the 14 year old Bombi Bitt. The Eel has a certain part in the book...

Pretty sure eels have looked like that since before the Sargasso Sea existed, but I don't know that for certain

This type of Eel has been around a good while (before the breakup and separation from Europe). Their breeding grounds seemingly have never changed regardless of continental drift. Chances are you're correct on it being the location being where they first evolved, and as the land mass separated they just started wandering & adapting to other environments over time.

@@Heowolf Also the dense kelp/seaweed groves probably supply a beneficial hiding ground during larval stage.

The continents drift apart and the Sargasso Sea is probably the oldest soil of the Atlantic ocean, existed when the entire ocean was just a lake... And now somehow they are the victim of their own habit of depending on their lifecycle of going to exactly one 'orgy' away from the shore where predators might too easily find them... to mate and reproduce and then go nicely to shore... the idea of having one big 'orgy' is also a clever survival trick, you make so many critters at once that the available predators just can't eat them all and enough of them do survive...

Where do all the eels in other parts of the world come from?

people on the other side if the ocean poaching them as delicacy.

@@HappyBeezerStudios Eels used to be a delicacy. Cut the head off, remove the guts, remove the skin (like taking off a stocking), chop into sections and simmer in water for 20 minutes and they come out jellied. They also should have stopped moving by then.

Have you considered donating your fishing logs to a university one day? I think it could be a valuable treasure trove of information about biodiversity through the decades!

Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.” (2:136 / Translated by Community) Salam (Peace)

It's probably habitat fragmentation. Freshwater disconnected from other freshwater. Dried wetlands. Straightened rivers. Disturbance by ships and ferries. As well as climate change.

Amazing!!!

Did you hear? We now know where eels come from. Fantastic news, isn't it?

Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.” (2:136 / Translated by Community) Salam (Peace)

Set up a protection zone.

I also grew up in the Annapolis valley and I can remember people harvesting glass eels from the tidal boar rivers feeding the Digby gut / Annapolis basin !!

"The glass eels have another name, they’re called elvers" Did you even watch the video? It clearly shows that 'elvers' are the stage AFTER 'glass eels'. 1:15 🤦‍♂ So, if anybody is calling glass eels 'elvers', then they don't have a clue what their talking about, apparently just like you don't.

@@sunnyjim1355 you're wrong

Ohh man, you think it's silly but it's a Multi million dollar operation, look at m6 home province, it just closed the glass eel fisheries, an people still pocthing them, 1:50

They come from Earth. The only planet in the universe known to harbour life.

@@Omni_Shambles ahah yes you got that right, the only thing we don't know is , do they live birth or do they lay eggs like other serpent like critters?

Could you please create an archive showing the different variations of prior pins? I'm having trouble identifying the rarity of mine, since only the current animal is shown on the chart in the DFTBA store. Thanks for considering the suggestion :)

a reel obsession, you could say

You are right. It's sometimes Ok to anthropomorphize

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As long as it's not fallaciously used by governments and corporations to say, shut the world down based on lies about a virus that are now thoroughly debunked, many by testimony in front of the US Congress.

Prob the last one alive.

Delusional people

And maybe the Loch Ness monster.

IN THIS DAY AND AGE YOU CAN BE A HELICOPTER IF YOU WANT.... :)

Xer/xir eelgender

The eels don't choice it, they are made that way

Hank has also done a stint on PBS Eons

"THESE ARE ALL GIRLS!!!"

@@ericvandenavond8748 WHAT'S A N**** GOTTA DO TO GET SOME EEL DI-

Wow!

Good question!!!

They probably still have X or Y equivalents, it's just that they spend effectively 25 years going around before they hit "puberty"

@@Appletank8 there's quite a few fish that can switch between male and female depending on what's more beneficial, so I wouldn't count on that

Good question. I guess it just depends on how they feel at the time :D

@@Appletank8 There are what is sometimes called "W" and "Z" where both are required, but do not determine the internal gender of the offspring; gender is influenced by external factors such as: temperature during incubation; nutrient availability during larval/juvenile stage; local gender ratios during adolescent/adult stage. Some species do not deviate to a specific gender until just before becoming mature and participating during mating season(s); though most that follow such strategy often die just after mating/incubating eggs.

You thought poop water.

The Sargasso Story has always been Obvious Mockery. EELS in the SARGASSO SEA with the ASS and the GAS.

It's been known now for over 25 years that the Northern Atlantic Common Eel, spawn in Sargasso Doldrums, it also happens in the South Atlantic and also there are same sorts of Doldrums in the Pacific for more Eels to spawn in It was filmed in the Sargasso Sea eels spawning on the Sargasso weed beds which comes from Mexico Gulf

Lockness Monster is a giant prehistoric eel, dna evidence eel

Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.” (2:136 / Translated by Community) Salam (Peace)

@@maxmaximum7372 Nope.

I don't think that's correct, it seems all eel farms start with wild caught glass eels, i have not seen any credible claim of captive breeding, and i imagine rearing the oceanic planktonic larva is going to be a challenge even if were possible to get the adults to spawning physiology in a captive environment.

He was the Bizarre Beast for April's fools two years ago: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ht5nlK52nMquomg.html

I think they did Hank last year for April Fool's day

@@RamenNoodle1985 I know. But as a fly.

@@ERYN__ nope, it was 2 years ago kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ht5nlK52nMquomg.html

Japanese eat em too but its ok if they do it

Nah it's mostly the Japanese who eats them. Unagi You can try unagi sometimes it's delicious and expensive.

Do they call it scientific research like for their whaling activities.

In all fairness, he never said that. The story is about tracking adult eels back to the Sargasso.

party in nova scotia

I mean, they are migratory. It couls be that that last switch just never gets flipped, so to speak.

Don't forget the monarch butterfly.

that would probably pick up the eel larvae that we know are there, not answer the questions about how and where exactly the adult eels spawn.

They are pretty endangered for many reasons (human reasons...😕) I don't know any answers to your questions, unfortunately. I'm deeply curious, too!

the IUCN lists them as critically endangered, which is one step away from extinction. apparently eels are in particularly desperate need of bans on catching or selling them, but the fishery lobby is successfully delaying regulatory action, and it's sort of generally failing to register that a fish that used to be so common and cheap is now in need of protection.

Oh my... I had no idea since they are sold everywhere for cheap... I really hope they get the help they need then soon so we can have our slippery slimy friends for a long time to come🥺😥💜 I really hate how governments can be essentially bought out since people work in governments, sometimes I think we'd be better off with literal monkeys in charge...

Well, we have lost ~98% of the European eel population in the last 35 years. Majority of the glass eels are caught to be raised and slaughtered in eel farms. And the general population has no idea because those farms market themselves as if they were breeding them. But yes, they spawn a lot of offspring at once. It's why they lose the digestive tract during migration, to make room for as many egg/sperm cells as possible.

APPARENTLY NZ EELS HEAD TO TONGA OR NEW CALEDONIA ,STILL FUNNY HOW IT SEEMS EELS WORLDWIDE TRAVEL TO DISTANT ISLANDS TO BREED

@@kylegrace4718 well you know how it is. The pretty girl never lives next door.

@@keithfaulkner6319 haha that goes double for where I live .... Parakai

See Coleridges Ryme of the Ancient Mariner, the Richard Burtons version not McKellans.

....they can't love each other just a little bit, they have to be in a committed relationship....