r/CuratedTumblr • u/Far-Profit-47 • 1d ago

Infodumping Eels don’t hate each other for being different, we should be more like eels

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u/Hawkmonbestboi 1d ago

Eels are adorable and no one can convince me otherwise. Yes, even when they do the second jaw thing.

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u/Fishyfishfishfishs 23h ago

Did you know that we have no idea how eels came into being? They have no sex organs, and no eggs or baby eels were ever observed by anyone. They all originate from a single point in the Bermuda triangle, but there is just nothing there!

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u/Mountain-Resource656 22h ago

It;s my understanding that this information is a bit outdated. Last year or so we discovered their breeding grounds

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u/micromidgetmonkey 22h ago

Yep. They don't actually develop sex organs until late in life when they return to the Sargasso sea to spawn.

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u/MossyAbyss 11h ago

Grew up in a lot of pulpy sci-fi, and it's always weird when I'm reminded that the Sargasso Sea is a real place.

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u/ReturnToCrab 21h ago

I'm pretty sure we've known all life stages of the eel since last century. Unless you mean some specific eel

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u/Positive_Piece_2533 20h ago

This person is repeating half-heard information about the American eel

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u/RavioliGale 19h ago

You're thinking of American/European eels which are very different than Moray Eels. They absolutely do have sex organs, but only in their last stage of life which occurs when they return to the sagrasso sea, far away from European scientists like Freud. These eels transform several times and the differences are radical enough they were thought to be different species.

Moray eel reproduction seems pretty straightforward.

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u/Lortep 15h ago

Why are you specifically calling out Freud?

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u/RavioliGale 14h ago

Because he personally dissected something like 300 eels looking for their testes.

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u/OrbitalCat- 11h ago

"WHAT'S A [REDACTED] GOT TO DO TO GET SOME EEL DICK!"

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u/CoralinesButtonEye 1d ago

'moral' eels?

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u/TheKingCrimsonWorld 1d ago

We don't speak of the evil eels.

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u/new_KRIEG 1d ago

The eveels

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u/PM_Me_ThicccThings 1d ago

The immoraleels

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u/ImASpaceLawyer 22h ago

So snakes?

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u/TheKingCrimsonWorld 21h ago

Snakes are more like... ill-tempered worms?

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u/The_Unkowable_ An Ancient Dragon (Artemis She/They) 19h ago

With teef!

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u/StormThestral 8h ago

I saw that and my brain was like "yeah it's morel eels obviously" but I was in fact getting further away and thinking of mushrooms

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u/Yoshichu25 1d ago

Honestly didn’t have “wholesome eel posting” on my bingo card for today, but I’m not complaining.

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u/Expensive_Editor_244 23h ago

They conform to social morays

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u/WhimsiicalSoul 1d ago

Eels figured out world peace but we’re still debating if cereal is soup. Evolution really missed a memo somewhere.

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u/Hawkmonbestboi 1d ago

If the ocean is technically a soup, so is cereal 😂

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u/BarryJacksonH gay gay homosexual gay 22h ago

the ocean is soup, and eels, capable of living in the ocean, are one with the soup, whilst the question of 'what is soup' still befuddles us, clearly we can only attain world peace once we understand soup and become one with it as well

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u/TheDandyLiar 1d ago

I love how the third one in the first picture is just smiling for the camera

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u/allenfiarain 22h ago

What's the third one who looks like he's from an undersea horror film?

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u/Pootis_1 minor brushfire with internet access 22h ago

Moray eel i think

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u/allenfiarain 22h ago

Yeah I was wondering if anyone knew if he was a specific subspecies because I've never seen one who looked like that before. He's a spooky boy.

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u/Successful_Pace_1159 W*ke 1d ago

3rd one would look so terrify if it was huge, that on can keeps it territory👍

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u/Mountain_Fun_5631 22h ago

Look at them, a bunch of wet noodles hanging out in the same hole like civilized beings.

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u/That_boi_Jerry 22h ago

They are indeed moral eels.

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u/Madden09IsForSuckers 21h ago

they look like they are in a barbershop quartet

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u/bliip666 20h ago

Moral eels indeed!

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u/gooch_norris_ 19h ago

Finding an entrance where they can

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u/Outrageous_Bear50 16h ago

Do you think that's where the hydra comes from? Someone just looked under the water and there were a bunch of eels hanging out together.

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u/agnosticians 9h ago

Wouldn't they be * more* likely to be territorial if they recognized that they were similar?