Why Nobody Knows How Eels Reproduce

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  • @LuvmebbyBrklyn
    @LuvmebbyBrklyn Před 3 lety +10792

    Humans: looks away for 1 second
    eels: come on let's do it while he isn't looking

    • @EPetras
      @EPetras Před 3 lety +136

      “common” lolol

    • @itsbruce6305
      @itsbruce6305 Před 3 lety +102

      @@EPetras I had to re read his comment for a second. My brain actually misunderstood everything after that lol

    • @kell4079
      @kell4079 Před 3 lety +5

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @withintheshyness
      @withintheshyness Před 3 lety +93

      I mean, would you do it if a bunch of scientists where trying to watch you without consent?!

    • @maxz69
      @maxz69 Před 3 lety +38

      they get too nervous if you're watching

  • @dootdoot8212
    @dootdoot8212 Před 3 lety +8753

    never ask:
    a woman her age
    a man his salary
    an eel how it reproduce

    • @foresthillwolf7998
      @foresthillwolf7998 Před 3 lety +101

      Also don't ask Kiwi birds, anglerfish, or spotted hyenas. Oof

    • @angerberd7829
      @angerberd7829 Před 3 lety +20

      @@foresthillwolf7998 i mean i hope you know how anglerfish reproduce...

    • @foresthillwolf7998
      @foresthillwolf7998 Před 3 lety +54

      @@angerberd7829 of course. Otherwise I wouldn't have said not to ask them.
      Truly strange creatures. That's the kind of things I expect in Alien movies. Not human looking bipeds.

    • @kirkkek
      @kirkkek Před 3 lety +28

      Minecraft how they got the panda death sound

    • @deviantartguy0
      @deviantartguy0 Před 3 lety +13

      You SHOULD ask a woman her age, just so you know you're not robbing the cradle.

  • @soulife8383
    @soulife8383 Před 2 lety +2958

    When I was a kid my dad's friend had a huge aquarium filled with stuff. We went camping once and he caught a handful of baby eels for his tank. Soon after all his fish started acting funny, dying, etc. It turned out to be from the baby eels.
    I remember one fish swimming sideways so the guy "put it down" and opened it up to see if there were any obvious reasons. A live baby eel popped out. His fish were eating them and they were eating their way back out. Eels man... Eels.

  • @sourcens
    @sourcens Před 2 lety +463

    For my 5th grade science project about eels and I got a 50/100 because I couldn't find out where they came from, or how they reproduced in any book. I cried because the teacher thought I was very lazy

    • @sourcens
      @sourcens Před 2 lety +84

      Literally a triggered memory I forgot about until I saw this video

    • @aureliaavalon
      @aureliaavalon Před 2 lety +77

      holy shit that's so unlucky 💀💀 you could've gotten a 100 if you picked any other animal

    • @slinky6481
      @slinky6481 Před 2 lety +27

      Dude that's so fucked lol

    • @annak804
      @annak804 Před 2 lety +65

      Teachers mate they do not do the research

    • @aureliaavalon
      @aureliaavalon Před 2 lety +7

      @@annak804 Well, that one at least.

  • @kirstytrainer5780
    @kirstytrainer5780 Před 2 lety +10662

    What if there’s just one massive mother-of-all-eels at the bottom of the sea. That’s a terrifying thought.

    • @lay1763
      @lay1763 Před 2 lety +118

      🤯🤯😳😳

    • @KyoKoamaru
      @KyoKoamaru Před 2 lety +885

      It's like how bees only have one queen... Terrifying but there is definitely a chance

    • @alunenutz6480
      @alunenutz6480 Před 2 lety +358

      The Leviathan =O

    • @tamou_whanau1441
      @tamou_whanau1441 Před 2 lety +548

      Possibly. Nobody knows how big they can be. In my country we have legends of giant eels. Stories from my elders about encountering them and we even have evidence in a museum of giant eels.
      I heard a story of my uncle had found a giant eel and he thought it was a log till it moved while he was trying to move it.

    • @RomansFree
      @RomansFree Před 2 lety +40

      @@tamou_whanau1441 Your uncle never saw that, quit lying to yourself

  • @Max-zr7hr
    @Max-zr7hr Před 3 lety +18189

    Obviously when one eel falls in love with another eel they get married and a stork eel drops off the baby eel

  • @eldenlord2798
    @eldenlord2798 Před 2 lety +473

    This just shows how big the ocean is and how much we haven’t explored, the fact we were able to narrow it down so much yet we still can’t find their breeding grounds is scary. There’s so much about some sea animals that we don’t know about and it’s kind of scary.

    • @thegorbagelord5434
      @thegorbagelord5434 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Scary or absolutely fascinating!

    • @Cherry-pu4mx
      @Cherry-pu4mx Před 6 měsíci +1

      We actually do know the breeding grounds. If I'm not mistaken they attached a gps to an eel. The sargasso is where they breed and larvae was found there way back in 1920.
      We also know how they breed because they were breed in captivity with the aid of hormones to sexually mature them and closely studied afterwards. This was done in the 90s

  • @mcblu9344
    @mcblu9344 Před 2 lety +411

    It turns out that eels have a migration rout that takes them to the Saragossa sea. They use the salinity in the water to find this place and this is where they meet. They have found the larva of baby eels and tracked the adults to this location. Meaning, the female will dump the eels and the males comes by to fertilize the eggs….this was discovered a year ago…you’re welcome..

    • @momokolove
      @momokolove Před 2 lety +4

      but what's with freshwater eels??

    • @mcblu9344
      @mcblu9344 Před 2 lety +51

      @@momokolove fresh water eels leave their freshwater habitats to start the migration to the Saragossa sea…crazy huh

    • @momokolove
      @momokolove Před 2 lety +5

      @@mcblu9344 what about eels that are like in a lake??

    • @mcblu9344
      @mcblu9344 Před 2 lety +63

      @@momokolove eels are born in salt water. The ones in lakes were too but move into lakes from stream systems. These are called catadromous eels. You’ll only find a lake dwelling eel if there is some stream system upriver to it. So if it’s damned off, no eels…

    • @momokolove
      @momokolove Před 2 lety +6

      @@mcblu9344 ohh okay!!! that's so fucking cool thank you

  • @josephgalvez5048
    @josephgalvez5048 Před 3 lety +7804

    “THESE ARE ALL GIRLS!”
    - Sigmund Freud, after searching 400 eels.

    • @xlawxc
      @xlawxc Před 3 lety +458

      Jeff Goldblum: How do you know? You go around flipping up the Eels skirts?
      Freud: *Y E S !*

    • @giancarlo418
      @giancarlo418 Před 3 lety +27

      czcams.com/video/QZSbUkQYbb8/video.html

    • @BLOXKAFELLARECORDS
      @BLOXKAFELLARECORDS Před 3 lety +5

      Hahah czcams.com/video/qtgRY1tmmfk/video.html

    • @user-sx5ti
      @user-sx5ti Před 3 lety +133

      “Sir I highly doubt that-“

    • @Stonecargo21
      @Stonecargo21 Před 3 lety +142

      *GO GET MORE*

  • @evstar2645
    @evstar2645 Před 3 lety +2828

    Answer: They don’t. They’re immortal creatures that survive on human fear

  • @layneurquhart9098
    @layneurquhart9098 Před 2 lety +23

    I was fully invested in everything in this video because eels keep me up at night and all their secrets

  • @pigplays2137
    @pigplays2137 Před 2 lety +27

    Ah yes a 16 minute documentary on CZcams talking about eel testes. What everyone needed

  • @chrisheyl1962
    @chrisheyl1962 Před 3 lety +3373

    “THESE ARE ALL GIRLS!”
    “GO GET MORE”
    -Samonella Academy

  • @madi7178
    @madi7178 Před 3 lety +3935

    Of course he thought eels came from rainwater and mud. If they bury themselves in mud during a dry spell they would come out when the dirt became mud due to rainwater. He probably watched an eel unearth itself while it was raining and his problem was solved.

    • @Powerbandm
      @Powerbandm Před 3 lety +398

      I think that’s a perfectly logical assumption!

    • @romanscum5678
      @romanscum5678 Před 3 lety +352

      @@Powerbandm Especially if you don't even know what cells are or are thousands of years away from cell theory.

    • @WaltonGFilm
      @WaltonGFilm Před 2 lety +74

      Wow, great observation. I didn't even come close to connecting the two. Thanks for the insight. Be well. .-.

    • @hectorcaraveo3913
      @hectorcaraveo3913 Před 2 lety +65

      This is literally the only logical comment on this thread... well, that and the stork theory lol

    • @rhonafenwick5643
      @rhonafenwick5643 Před 2 lety +60

      Right? Legit, the rainwater-and-mud hypothesis would have been explicitly supported by observational evidence, at least. If a society has no previous tradition of scientific enquiry, they have to start somewhere.

  • @StarKatGaming
    @StarKatGaming Před 2 lety +6

    I can’t hear the Freud story without thinking of a certain Sam O’Nella clip

  • @Ms.Alvarez42
    @Ms.Alvarez42 Před 2 lety +17

    This is such a great video. I used it in my High School Biology class to discuss scientific process and reinforce the scientific method. My students had a blast!

  • @benjaminvega7186
    @benjaminvega7186 Před 3 lety +3430

    "This isn't even my final form"
    -eels everywhere I imagine

    • @stormgod190
      @stormgod190 Před 2 lety +4

      Lol

    • @altareggo
      @altareggo Před 2 lety +4

      Nice to know i'm not the only DBZ fan who connected eel transformations with Freeza........

    • @Zach014G
      @Zach014G Před 2 lety

      now we need an eel enemy in the dbs universe LOL

    • @ologhai8559
      @ologhai8559 Před 2 lety

      Perfect Eel

    • @BenDover-sl9zx
      @BenDover-sl9zx Před 2 lety +1

      @@ologhai8559 nope even better *perfect seal*

  • @khaucan5068
    @khaucan5068 Před 3 lety +3429

    What if eel isn't the final stage of eel's life cycle. They only mature when they become a 4 dimension creature then they lay egg in 3 dimension

  • @TheRealTaco
    @TheRealTaco Před 2 lety +72

    You're telling me, no scientist has ever tagged an eel with gps and watched them move to their reproduction grounds?

  • @UnkleGaga
    @UnkleGaga Před 2 lety +24

    I’ll always find it strange that I’m absolutely terrified of snakes (I can’t even see a picture of one without freaking out) but eels don’t bother me at all. In fact, I’ve had eel a few times at a sushi restaurant.

  • @jamescain4591
    @jamescain4591 Před 3 lety +6440

    So Freud thought he would be the first man to discover eel balls, then quit after dissecting 400 because of emotional fatigue. Seems sane and rational enough.

  • @jefferywise1906
    @jefferywise1906 Před 3 lety +1124

    Eels burry themselves in mud when a pond dries up. Rains come and eels arise out of the mud. I would think that that plus the lack might lead an observer to jump to an eelogical assumption.

    • @user-tv3ik9qi9x
      @user-tv3ik9qi9x Před 3 lety +20

      I feel like you're reaching and reeling 😏

    • @user-tv3ik9qi9x
      @user-tv3ik9qi9x Před 3 lety +10

      You really threw caution into the wind and let Jesus take the wheel.

    • @miinziiiiiii
      @miinziiiiiii Před 3 lety +9

      Maybe they lay eggs in the mud?

    • @coolraygaming
      @coolraygaming Před 3 lety +9

      @@user-tv3ik9qi9x thats kinda eeliterate

    • @user-tv3ik9qi9x
      @user-tv3ik9qi9x Před 3 lety +24

      They make offspring when they have *eelings* for eachother

  • @murilopereira7186
    @murilopereira7186 Před 2 lety +4

    Sam O'Nella found out how they do it and they got him. That's why he is missing for so long

  • @raymartinez3826
    @raymartinez3826 Před 2 lety +10

    Lyle takes me to some odd but interesting places

  • @spyfox260
    @spyfox260 Před 3 lety +1264

    1970: “We will have flying cars in the future”
    2021: “WHERE ARE EELS BALLS?”

  • @Afinef
    @Afinef Před 3 lety +1294

    Sigmund Freud: THESE ARE ALL GIRLS

    • @That-diesel-guy
      @That-diesel-guy Před 3 lety +86

      Go get more

    • @SillyMeause
      @SillyMeause Před 3 lety +273

      WELL WHAT'S A NIGGA GOTTA DO TO GET SOME EEL DIー

    • @EMCBUSSESCOACH
      @EMCBUSSESCOACH Před 3 lety +7

      LOL

    • @mosterchife6045
      @mosterchife6045 Před 3 lety +42

      GO GET M O R E

    • @HippoBoiO
      @HippoBoiO Před 3 lety +57

      This is the first thing I thought of when I saw this video
      Thanks for your hot and steamy loads of knowledge dripping down my neck and chest Sam

  • @astralsheepu7379
    @astralsheepu7379 Před 2 lety +371

    “Killer whales aren’t whales, they’re dolphins” is an oxymoron because technically dolphins are whales.

    • @unquestionableexistance8704
      @unquestionableexistance8704 Před 2 lety +3

      Sure I guess

    • @KiLLKiNDLY
      @KiLLKiNDLY Před 2 lety +34

      @@unquestionableexistance8704 Dolphins are a subgroup of whales

    • @1wolsk
      @1wolsk Před 2 lety +11

      You mean to say they're all cetaceans?

    • @KiLLKiNDLY
      @KiLLKiNDLY Před 2 lety +16

      @@1wolsk Is that what I wrote? No I mean Dolphins are part of the sub group of toothed-whales

    • @1wolsk
      @1wolsk Před 2 lety +4

      @@KiLLKiNDLY You are correct. I just thought that this would both agree with you and be less confusing for others 😊

  • @jordanolsen879
    @jordanolsen879 Před 2 lety +5

    This episode was just pure comedy gold… don’t know if it’s your script or your delivery or the accent… but good job… loved it.

  • @FharishAhmed
    @FharishAhmed Před 3 lety +5201

    Why Nobody Has Ever Seen an Eel's Balls - was the original title!

    • @jayperionx7272
      @jayperionx7272 Před 3 lety +188

      14min after publishing: Why nobody knows how Eel‘s reproduce.

    • @reapermaster1233
      @reapermaster1233 Před 3 lety +50

      currently it's "why nobody knows how eels reproduce"

    • @godrole2481
      @godrole2481 Před 3 lety +10

      100th like eeeee satisfaction

    • @hashtag415
      @hashtag415 Před 3 lety +6

      He ruined my mothballs joke in doing that.😂

    • @generalzucc462
      @generalzucc462 Před 3 lety +5

      I was gonna say ahah I was like wait.... pretty sure the title mentioned “balls”

  • @dotdot3658
    @dotdot3658 Před 3 lety +809

    Wait you’re telling me that he was hanging around a dried pond and when the rain came and the eels came out of hibernation, he was crazy for saying that eels were born that way?????

    • @lukejackson1871
      @lukejackson1871 Před 3 lety +35

      🤷‍♂️good point

    • @zeinnanla5422
      @zeinnanla5422 Před 3 lety +93

      In a vacuum it sounds crazy but that's honestly a reay good observation

    • @med4nel
      @med4nel Před 3 lety +70

      It would be crazy nowadays, but back then the boundries of what is possible and what is not where not as clear.

    • @LeeLonnieLove
      @LeeLonnieLove Před 3 lety +18

      that’s probably why it was accepted by everyone. People could see it for themselves.

    • @user-mh9dx7nz2r
      @user-mh9dx7nz2r Před 3 lety +2

      @@med4nel It's still not completely clear.

  • @rafin060
    @rafin060 Před 2 lety +4

    Lyle wasn't lying after all

  • @meluckycharms111
    @meluckycharms111 Před 2 lety +5

    I just learned so much from this. First off, the word “idiomatic.” But then all this stuff about eels, I had no idea they were so interesting!

  • @m.c.gargamel7736
    @m.c.gargamel7736 Před 3 lety +1430

    What if- hear me out
    All eels are female.
    -Siegmund Freud at some point

    • @rptrmacct
      @rptrmacct Před 3 lety +16

      That’s racist!

    • @capncake8837
      @capncake8837 Před 3 lety +68

      Sounds kinda gay.

    • @dragonslibrary9207
      @dragonslibrary9207 Před 3 lety +151

      *THESE ARE ALL GIRLS*
      Mr. Freud, that seems highly unlikely-
      *GO GET MORE*
      Mr Freud-
      *WHAT'S A [REDACTED] GOTTA DO TO GET SOME EEL DI-*

    • @nebulisnoobis102
      @nebulisnoobis102 Před 3 lety +14

      @@dragonslibrary9207 NO GOD PLEASE NO

    • @jwp999999
      @jwp999999 Před 3 lety +4

      Underrated comment

  • @scptime1188
    @scptime1188 Před 3 lety +2131

    TLDW: We now know that Eels develop testes based on environmental cues (and are agender at birth), explaining why Eels taken out of the water are very unlikely to have testes. This also why Freud only found one devloping male out of all the hundreds of Eels he dissected.

    • @failpup2062
      @failpup2062 Před 3 lety +265

      Big brain people like u is why I look in the comment section for all the answers. The comment section is all knowing

    • @eyekandi
      @eyekandi Před 3 lety +7

      i guessed right 😎

    • @laneyb8911
      @laneyb8911 Před 3 lety +41

      what if the ones that started developing were towards the last to get dissected and the drop in eel population around them caused the development

    • @jtcoop40
      @jtcoop40 Před 2 lety +17

      im not even trying to be that person, cause im not a genius, but I was definitely thinking if this was a possibility. It's cool to know I was thinking in the right path!

    • @MH-dm4qc
      @MH-dm4qc Před 2 lety +31

      You’re wrong. Agender and being Sexless are NOT the same. Eels are SEXLESS, agender is a term that only applies to humans

  • @cecillewolters1995
    @cecillewolters1995 Před 2 lety +17

    What if the baby eels leave empty eggs around, that can be recycled when comes into contact with some adult eel parts?
    Kinda like jellyfish do, just a tad more complicated.
    How do the males know how and when to spread said adult stuff? Maybe similar on how frogs can navigate to their birthplace.

  • @couplestherapyforsingles6120

    It's crap like this that makes is halarious that people think we went to the moon and we live stream in real time from Mars when I can't even get cell service in North Carolina.

  • @KorporalKReephdmkiytrecv69
    @KorporalKReephdmkiytrecv69 Před 3 lety +2112

    The real question is, why are you trying to look at an eels balls

  • @JeryPlaysMinecraftPe
    @JeryPlaysMinecraftPe Před 3 lety +3911

    Answer: They spawn when the world is generated. You’re welcome.

    • @JeryPlaysMinecraftPe
      @JeryPlaysMinecraftPe Před 3 lety +81

      @Joe Mama Hopefully they’ll fix them not dropping any ball- I mean, hearts of the sea.

    • @ryler7
      @ryler7 Před 3 lety +1

      *Your

    • @kmoney5647
      @kmoney5647 Před 3 lety +35

      @@ryler7 no, its "you're" guy.

    • @ryler7
      @ryler7 Před 3 lety

      @@kmoney5647 *Your

    • @jamquick5298
      @jamquick5298 Před 3 lety +3

      But how do they reproduce is the question? A lot of things spawned at the start of the Earth.

  • @auro5746
    @auro5746 Před 2 lety +4

    My man Schmidt spending twenty years of his life looking for the secret eels brothel, that's dedication

  • @valdemar91
    @valdemar91 Před 2 lety +1

    Love how the woman at 9:00 drops the chalk, and continues as if nothing happened.

  • @c.w.corner
    @c.w.corner Před 3 lety +1918

    I like how his videos aren't clickbait, they're 100% literal

  • @HannahZiad
    @HannahZiad Před 3 lety +3271

    Till this day they cant find out how it happens and where are the eggs?
    But after years they found out they have balls ! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    • @TheChzoronzon
      @TheChzoronzon Před 3 lety +75

      Crucial questions come first

    • @spaceboy7041
      @spaceboy7041 Před 3 lety +39

      God created all animals in the world, only God has the answer to the things that not even scientist can figure out.

    • @Deadriser
      @Deadriser Před 3 lety +242

      @@spaceboy7041 But does God know why children love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch?
      Now I'm just imaging God descending from heaven, with the chorus and trumpets and whatnot, only to say "EELS TOTALLY HAVE BALLS!" and slowly ascending right back into the clouds.

    • @spaceboy7041
      @spaceboy7041 Před 3 lety +11

      @@Deadriser he does cuz God is God and knows all lol otherwise there's no point of him being God

    • @AD-ui6sk
      @AD-ui6sk Před 3 lety +91

      @@spaceboy7041 🤦‍♂️😂

  • @biggestsigh
    @biggestsigh Před 2 lety +2

    I was today years old when I first realized that he's introducing himself as "Thoughty2" and not "fourty-two"

  • @jackiepollard3843
    @jackiepollard3843 Před 2 lety +1

    I can honestly say I have never thought so much about eels. Thanks for adding to my 'miscellaneous thoughts--some useful, some not so much'!

  • @qqqalo
    @qqqalo Před 3 lety +405

    When two eels love each other very much they ask God for a baby, then a baby eel is brought down from the heaven by a stork.

    • @IamINERT
      @IamINERT Před 3 lety +12

      Maybe seagulls are some sort of delivery service.

    • @sardonicus1739
      @sardonicus1739 Před 3 lety +9

      @Boogiie Montana Wrong. By the same logic flying humans would be what deliver human babies. But they don't. Storks manufacturer and deliver the baby. Storks clearly have some weird monopoly on baby delivery services. Therefore flying fish wouldn't make baby for fish. I rest my case.

    • @shiezer682
      @shiezer682 Před 3 lety +5

      They also have to submit an application form with their income, status and background both to God, and the stork messengers before doing so.

    • @kylegrey8266
      @kylegrey8266 Před 3 lety +1

      This is literally the same thing my parents told me when I asked them “where do babies come from?” Then I got a girlfriend in 1st grade and said “let’s ask god for a baby so the storks can bring to us” she agreed and when it didn’t work I told my mom and she said “only adults can have babies”. However, i knew that teens could have babies and then I decided to look it up cause I knew she was lying. That’s how I learned the birds and the bees.

    • @agentpotater4943
      @agentpotater4943 Před 3 lety

      Seems legit

  • @generalgrievous8648
    @generalgrievous8648 Před 3 lety +1846

    “If Nintendo has decided to turn Kirby into a horror franchise” this man doesn’t understand Kirby lore.

    • @nottechytutorials
      @nottechytutorials Před 3 lety +142

      I went to search for Kirby to see what you meant and thought I'd mention the first result I was given was for a vacuum cleaner.

    • @thecorruptedgamer7032
      @thecorruptedgamer7032 Před 3 lety +111

      Yeah knowing that 90% of Kirby villains are recreations of the devil or evil it's self

    • @scmomcquad1007
      @scmomcquad1007 Před 3 lety +40

      Literal Eldridge deities that posses people

    • @blehh_mae
      @blehh_mae Před 3 lety +56

      @@thecorruptedgamer7032 the most recent canon one is literally the god of chaos and destruction too, not even joking that is literally what it is, not an exaggeration or anything

    • @MonaGC.
      @MonaGC. Před 3 lety +12

      @@blehh_mae damn. He kills lord beerus

  • @lady_k5588
    @lady_k5588 Před 2 lety +6

    This makes me wonder how Tararre was able to eat a whole eel in one bite!

  • @zoeblake7220
    @zoeblake7220 Před 2 lety +2

    okay wait, is aristotle talking about worms? when it rains worms come up from the soil and are in mud... does he think that worms are baby eels? i just thought of this not very far into the video so i am just rambling lol.

  • @Project_EG2
    @Project_EG2 Před 3 lety +300

    Moral of the story: it’s none of our business

  • @darwindark2561
    @darwindark2561 Před 3 lety +597

    Me: I’m gonna get school work done today
    Me at 3 am: *watching a video on how eels reproduce*

  • @ianshurtleff806
    @ianshurtleff806 Před 2 lety

    I love that the eel in the thumbnail looks just as concerned as I was reading the title of this. Keep up the great work, man!

  • @moodberry
    @moodberry Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for teaching me something that I didn't even know I had a question about. Now I can show off in Trivial Pursuit!

  • @scottjackson1420
    @scottjackson1420 Před 3 lety +686

    "Sexual eeling."
    You are one funny guy. No kidding.

    • @Twak08
      @Twak08 Před 3 lety +23

      Like a hentai but with one tentacle

    • @panikk2245
      @panikk2245 Před 3 lety +20

      @My Account so are you, but hey nobody wants you to feel bad

    • @hey12yearsago21
      @hey12yearsago21 Před 3 lety +3

      My Account w h a t

    • @CameronBrtnik
      @CameronBrtnik Před 3 lety

      *No squid ink

    • @panikk2245
      @panikk2245 Před 3 lety +7

      @My Account at least get my name right

  • @LookItsSani
    @LookItsSani Před 3 lety +307

    "yall where do eels come from tho"
    "idk they're dying shark's tongues maybe"
    "yea seems right"

    • @suviram.1901
      @suviram.1901 Před 3 lety

      didn't need to comment it twice 🤣

    • @LookItsSani
      @LookItsSani Před 3 lety

      @@suviram.1901 I didn't notice it sent twice lol thanks for pointing it out

    • @suviram.1901
      @suviram.1901 Před 3 lety

      @@LookItsSani 😂👌its ok

  • @RaydarCreative
    @RaydarCreative Před 2 lety +2

    I actually caught one of the clear ribbon eels off the shore of lake Michigan! If I would've known it was a baby eel i would've been so amazed

  • @MarcStollmeyer
    @MarcStollmeyer Před 2 lety +7

    I love how many of the greatest minds of history tackled this question and yet not one of them thought “hey maybe I should capture one and just observe it”.

    • @aarniichan3508
      @aarniichan3508 Před rokem +1

      You really think no one has tried that yet? Haha

  • @dogsareawesome9197
    @dogsareawesome9197 Před 3 lety +268

    Person: *decapitates eel*
    Eel: Oh No! Anyway...

  • @LBdreamin
    @LBdreamin Před 3 lety +973

    Everyone’s asking: Where are the eel’s balls?
    But no one is asking: How are the eel’s balls?

  • @DPelicanGaming
    @DPelicanGaming Před rokem +1

    I can relate to the letter. When u do the same task for many hours that is what happens. I've experienced it cutting open scallops

  • @hanzflackshnack1158
    @hanzflackshnack1158 Před rokem +1

    The fact that something as fragile as a fish can just bury itself and hibernate through the winter will never cease to mess with my head. If I could sleep for a month without any need for shelter sustenance or anything else… I’d do it more frequently than I should

  • @8-ball350
    @8-ball350 Před 3 lety +443

    Alternate title: *noodle fish might have been genetically castrated for no apparent reason*

  • @burnerjack01
    @burnerjack01 Před 3 lety +456

    Eels reproduce in the dark. Like every other "less than beautiful" out there.

  • @Abrushtofrin
    @Abrushtofrin Před 2 lety

    This was the first video I've ever watched in this channel, now I have watched almost every video in this channel.

  • @skipper4126
    @skipper4126 Před 2 lety +1

    Eels and Platypus... some of lifes greatest mysteries.

  • @cameron571
    @cameron571 Před 3 lety +784

    Freud's theories are basically just the more respected precursor to the classic rebuttal "I know you are but what am I?". I bet all his life people were like "Why are you so obsessed with people's baby making parts?" and Freud was like "Well why are you so obsessed with my thoughts on those body parts? Maybe you just think too much about your mom's body, creepo" and everyone back then was so scared of talking about sex at all, much less something THAT weird, that they'd just be like "Woah, woah, alright, sorry I said anything, I'll shut up but just don't say stuff like that about me!". And it worked so well that it became his whole personality.

  • @l0rd_of_hollows681
    @l0rd_of_hollows681 Před 3 lety +500

    Nobody:
    Eels: This isn't even my final form

    • @Hunter-pb4zw
      @Hunter-pb4zw Před 3 lety +1

      😂😂

    • @anthonyacuna5507
      @anthonyacuna5507 Před 3 lety +11

      They eventually turn into dragons if they live long enough.

    • @anousenic
      @anousenic Před 3 lety +8

      @@anthonyacuna5507 with massive balls. probably.

    • @bruh1214
      @bruh1214 Před 3 lety +1

      @@anthonyacuna5507 sadly global warming has stopped that 😢 if we cared for the environment eels would make it to their final form, we'll never get to see an eel in its final form unfortunately

    • @alduintheworldeater1594
      @alduintheworldeater1594 Před 3 lety +1

      @@bruh1214 😭

  • @RailfoxStudios
    @RailfoxStudios Před 2 lety +1

    This must be how pokemon trainers feel when they leave two totally different species alone in daycare for a bit.

  • @ale_vidal234
    @ale_vidal234 Před 2 lety +1

    2 questions:
    1. why has this video appeared as a suggestion?
    2. why hasn't this video appeared as a suggestion earlier???

  • @glowinthedarkshark9396
    @glowinthedarkshark9396 Před 3 lety +474

    Im kind of irritated to say that he forgot to include the fact that the eels spawn IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE. Sargasso sea sure, but the bermuda is already anomalous enough, appearently it houses anomelous fish too.

    • @danielstandford4930
      @danielstandford4930 Před 3 lety +46

      I hate the fact that this is a sentence that makes sense even without video games existing. Everytime i read this I feel like its wrong and some tier zoo shit

    • @blackgold2589
      @blackgold2589 Před 3 lety +31

      Actually that’s a myth, there is nothing weird about the Bermuda Triangle and many of its supposed famous crashes don’t even occur in the Bermuda Triangle, merely passing through it

    • @danielstandford4930
      @danielstandford4930 Před 3 lety +45

      @@blackgold2589 well, yeah. Thats the weird stuff. We know why it happens to a degree and obviously we know its not paranormal. Its just because the areas winds and oceans are obviously like a giant whirlpool so it causes some weird unpredictable things to happen. In the 1880s when it was first was introduced as a mainstream and well known phenomenon, they didnt have any tools to know any of the features of the land. Even back to when Christopher Columbus was around he had to sail through the triangle. He recounted having seen an intense flame and light crash into the oceans which we think might of been a very coincidental meteor. Also, pretty notably, the triangles north and south magnetic fields line up evenly which causes compasses not to work.

    • @stonksboi69
      @stonksboi69 Před 3 lety

      WHAT THE F-

    • @TheRealestKushSmoker420
      @TheRealestKushSmoker420 Před 3 lety

      @@stonksboi69 stfu

  • @Dax888
    @Dax888 Před 3 lety +146

    He’s cracked the algorithm. Everybody Is searching for the Sam O’nella video that got removed and finds this

    • @Heavycorp17
      @Heavycorp17 Před 3 lety +7

      What ever happened to Sam? I loved his page tbh

    • @reece4263
      @reece4263 Před 3 lety +4

      @@Heavycorp17 he’s been taking a break for college and shit

    • @Heavycorp17
      @Heavycorp17 Před 3 lety +2

      @@reece4263 makes sense

    • @ohno1914
      @ohno1914 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Heavycorp17 oh and he said the n word

    • @Heavycorp17
      @Heavycorp17 Před 3 lety +1

      @@ohno1914 oof, He dropped the hard R and got canceled? Yikes

  • @ryansacco6931
    @ryansacco6931 Před 2 lety

    just watched this and my friend called me on discord and I proceeded to tell him the entire story with great enthusiasm

  • @classydarktoys5731
    @classydarktoys5731 Před rokem +1

    The thumbnail for this is the ONLY photo of an eel I’ve ever seen that didn’t scare the absolute crap out of me.

  • @thomasbermea347
    @thomasbermea347 Před 2 lety +147

    When an eel has a maw with a pharingeal jaw, that's a moray!
    When you live in a reef and have two sets of teeth, that's a moray!
    When an eel bites your thigh and you bleed out and die, that's a moray!

    • @martisole6249
      @martisole6249 Před 2 lety +2

      cool beat bro

    • @BlazedBarbie
      @BlazedBarbie Před 2 lety +5

      I instinctively read this to the beat of “if you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands” 😂

    • @thomasbermea347
      @thomasbermea347 Před 2 lety +1

      @@BlazedBarbie lmao 🤣

    • @JimJimmieson
      @JimJimmieson Před 2 lety +8

      @@BlazedBarbie it's supposed to be to the tune of "that's amore" smh

    • @archaicbeatz8391
      @archaicbeatz8391 Před 2 lety

      Well played bro, acc took me a minute to get it 😂

  • @DavidNasr
    @DavidNasr Před 3 lety +333

    man your scripts are so well written. Formal yet non-formal, serious yet comedic, exciting and mysterious, etc.

  • @ytvas6271
    @ytvas6271 Před 2 lety +1

    After watching this video and you talk about sigmund Freud, I finally understand that joke in titanic

  • @bennienb9331
    @bennienb9331 Před 2 lety +1

    Im currently drawing a fantasy / horror image of a gigantic infinite eel at the bottom of the ocean but after this video, im looking at it a little different now...

  • @garymcwilliams2001
    @garymcwilliams2001 Před 3 lety +596

    Thoughty 2 has the weirdest yet most intriguing titles 😂😂

    • @lukeparks461
      @lukeparks461 Před 3 lety +8

      4 hours ago?

    • @NBrixH
      @NBrixH Před 3 lety +15

      @@lukeparks461 early access.

    • @itsNullify
      @itsNullify Před 3 lety +1

      so true...

    • @qtclone
      @qtclone Před 3 lety

      beta?

    • @NBrixH
      @NBrixH Před 3 lety +1

      @@qtclone if You’re a member you can sometimes watch videos before others.

  • @djchameleon6582
    @djchameleon6582 Před 3 lety +198

    It's funny that sam O'Nella joke was actually kind of accurate

    • @bonercityboys3058
      @bonercityboys3058 Před 3 lety

      What?

    • @JustTryHard_Juth
      @JustTryHard_Juth Před 3 lety +13

      THESE ARE ALL GIRLS

    • @Fox_Olive
      @Fox_Olive Před 3 lety +15

      I mean, that joke was obviously researched. Sam wouldn’t put it in the vid unless it had some basis in history

    • @emperorza5777
      @emperorza5777 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Fox_Olive Exactly

    • @aleccooper9350
      @aleccooper9350 Před 3 lety +13

      “THESE ARE ALL GIRLS” “sir I-“ “GO GET MORE” “Mr.froyd I highly doub-“ WHATS A NI*** GOTTA DO TO GET SOME EEL DICK”

  • @Thatthing1234
    @Thatthing1234 Před 2 lety +2

    They're just out here spawning 🤣

  • @Sarappreciates
    @Sarappreciates Před 11 měsíci

    I never understood this guy's mustache until; I saw the suspenders... Barber Shop Quartet. It all makes perfect sense now.

  • @joshroberts5540
    @joshroberts5540 Před 3 lety +288

    When “How is babby formed?” Becomes a legitimate brain stumper...

    • @donwald3436
      @donwald3436 Před 3 lety +9

      How girl get pragnent?

    • @tind33p
      @tind33p Před 3 lety +4

      @@donwald3436 "They need to do way instain mother> who kill thier babbys, becuse these babby cant fright back?

    • @Solace6428
      @Solace6428 Před 3 lety +3

      This thread gave me a stroke

    • @garorade
      @garorade Před 3 lety +2

      Babs prgant

    • @breezytortila9000
      @breezytortila9000 Před 3 lety

      B a b b y

  • @ZENMASTERME1
    @ZENMASTERME1 Před 3 lety +212

    When Aaron was born, his mother said, “oh what a treasure.” And his dad said, “yeah let’s go outside and bury it.”

    • @AndreaDingbatt
      @AndreaDingbatt Před 3 lety +9

      @Zenmasterme Thats what My Dad says about Me!! (True!) :)X

    • @anothermouth7077
      @anothermouth7077 Před 3 lety +3

      🤣 I'm gonna use this (I hope it's a joke)

    • @scottyd2262
      @scottyd2262 Před 3 lety

      @@BLOXKAFELLARECORDS Sorry to hear that...

    • @anothermouth7077
      @anothermouth7077 Před 3 lety

      @Gernot Schrader yeah I hope same

    • @AndreaDingbatt
      @AndreaDingbatt Před 3 lety

      @Gernot Schrader The Whole joke was one of his favourites!!
      So,Both,what a treasure & lets bury it!! X

  • @chrisjames4983
    @chrisjames4983 Před 2 lety

    4am in the morning and I'm learning something crazy thank you I love this channel

  • @Artifying
    @Artifying Před 2 lety

    This is such a great example of why grouping animals based on morphological characteristics is inadequate for phylogenetic organization.

  • @Average_Josh
    @Average_Josh Před 3 lety +467

    Too late, that eel is already in heart. Such a cute little guy.

    • @anugy1195
      @anugy1195 Před 3 lety +5

      Eels aren’t cute

    • @marwan4358
      @marwan4358 Před 3 lety +4

      @@anugy1195 Haha true that, especially the large ones.

    • @TimDaOne
      @TimDaOne Před 3 lety +2

      @@anugy1195 As long as I'm behind a screen and not with it in the water they're pretty interesting

    • @anugy1195
      @anugy1195 Před 3 lety

      @@TimDaOne interesting, but not cute at all lmao

    • @TimDaOne
      @TimDaOne Před 3 lety +1

      @@anugy1195 As a guy with not a lot of emotions I really don't know whether something is cute but every animal is inspiring to me.

  • @debombibandebumbo6986
    @debombibandebumbo6986 Před 3 lety +452

    "how tf do eels reproduce?"
    - Sun Tzu

  • @josieposiec268
    @josieposiec268 Před 2 lety +2

    they dont reproduce they just spawn there

  • @shawnsmith1865
    @shawnsmith1865 Před 2 lety

    The effort is must take to research and put together the video bits I'm sure is mind-blowing.

  • @raychuuu
    @raychuuu Před 3 lety +72

    It’s not that nobody knows, just the people who do are so horrified that they can never talk about it to anyone

    • @infinitedeath1384
      @infinitedeath1384 Před 3 lety +3

      I guess you could say they were Scaroused. Scared and aroused from looking at eel genitals. You know.. someone would have an odd kink for eels...

    • @Lemme-sniff-ya
      @Lemme-sniff-ya Před 3 lety

      I can, its the slime.

    • @BenjaminOommen
      @BenjaminOommen Před 3 lety +1

      @English person sit this one down. Your kind thought eels came from a horses tail

    • @BenjaminOommen
      @BenjaminOommen Před 3 lety +2

      @English person nah I was just messing around. I'm not american and the gag was after your username.

    • @advancedhumanacademy3426
      @advancedhumanacademy3426 Před 3 lety

      @English person the point of the video is that eels still are largely a mystery, and that exactly how they reproduce still hasn't been documented.
      they don't know how they are migrating either at such young hatchlings.
      They just know, that they do actually have balls that develop once they migrate back to the seagarssa ocean, and once they live that specific area, their balls glands dissapear again.. thats why, if you want to find an eel with balls, you have to go to the seagarssa ocean. we don't know how they mate, the habits and behavior of them, their reproductive lifecycles down to a specific, theirs more work to be done to understand the eels.

  • @snowydeagles15
    @snowydeagles15 Před 3 lety +333

    i love this man's never ending creativity and unrivaled storytelling skills never cease to amaze me

    • @a_real_jive_turkey7772
      @a_real_jive_turkey7772 Před 3 lety +4

      Unrivaled? Have you never seen simon Whistler? Hes got several channels. Today I found out, top tenz, mega projects, side projects, casual criminalist, and business blaze....and others. He has to be pretty decent at it to have that many successful channels

    • @Grace.allovertheplace
      @Grace.allovertheplace Před 3 lety

      Same❤️

    • @AustinRoberts88
      @AustinRoberts88 Před 3 lety +1

      Right? Like how does he come up with so much information and then put it into an interesting video?! And so many so quickly lol

    • @a_real_jive_turkey7772
      @a_real_jive_turkey7772 Před 3 lety +4

      @@AustinRoberts88 people work for him

    • @robertbrindley8948
      @robertbrindley8948 Před 3 lety

      I know right this guy is great

  • @itsfinn714
    @itsfinn714 Před 2 lety

    I always just imagined the eels slapping fins and then a baby appears

  • @elmerfudd5650
    @elmerfudd5650 Před 9 měsíci

    My mother grew up in the Mississippi delta area. She said there were lamprey eels in the freshwater streams where she grew up.

  • @cristian-ionutapostol8018
    @cristian-ionutapostol8018 Před 3 lety +125

    3:30 Not that dumb of an idea when you keep seeing eels pop out of previously dry mud after fresh rain, since, you know... they _hybernate in it_ .

  • @grimherrera4701
    @grimherrera4701 Před 3 lety +68

    Shark:*has eel in heart* well wtf am i gonna do now i don't have insurance

  • @CNNBlackmailSupport
    @CNNBlackmailSupport Před 2 lety +2

    Next time someone says "the science is settled" tell them "oh yeah? We thought eels were spawned through spontaneous genesis for 2000 years. AND WE STILL DONT KNOW IF THAT IS WRONG!"

  • @wombatburrito5896
    @wombatburrito5896 Před 2 lety

    Easily one of your best videos mate! I laughed out loud a few times. Particularly with the sexual “Eeling” . Well done sir

  • @Skyrimlizard
    @Skyrimlizard Před 3 lety +170

    Those ancient “scientists” really had scary accurate theories or just bat shit crazy things

    • @vyl4650
      @vyl4650 Před 3 lety +20

      the difference between an old crazy guy and the "founding father of modern science" is just if people remember the shit you were right on or your other... usually more entertaining ideas

    • @VaanOtacon
      @VaanOtacon Před 2 lety +3

      I imagine those are just the theories that stand the test of time. The shit that was almost a magically correct educated guess, and the ideas so dumb that mellinia later we are still giving them shit for it.

  • @Laksur_
    @Laksur_ Před 3 lety +126

    "nobody has every seen eels breed"
    ALRIGHTY BRING IN DAVID ATTENBROUGH

    • @NotAMuse
      @NotAMuse Před 3 lety +2

      I love David Attenborough!

  • @TheAmishshoes
    @TheAmishshoes Před 2 lety

    I had no idea how much I needed to know this

  • @madhatterdan9306
    @madhatterdan9306 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I feel like Aristotle claiming they claim to life out of rainwater + mud was probably due to mouth breathers constantly asking him the same question and not taking IDK for an answer. So he was like "I'll just tell them the stupidest reason I can think of and see if they believe it". Hence the oldest troll was born.