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lets talk about this fella here a moment

this baby is a ribbon eel, part of a group of fish called the moray eels. moray eels are basically hilarious because they are always fucking delighted (they can’t actually close their mouths so basically they’re grinning from ear to ear every moment of their lives).

wait i hear you say, if they can’t close their mouths how do they eat. pharyngeal jaws, my friend, pharyngeal jaws. don’t know what those are?

have you ever seen alien?

i shit you not, moray eels have a second set of teeth in the back of their throats that are spring loaded to jump out and grab things that swim into their mouths.

now if that wasn’t awesome enough, the ribbon eel is the only protandric moray. that means that although this little fella is clearly, by his colouring, a young adult male, give him a long enough lifespan and he’ll get bigger, turn yellow-brown, and become female.

that’s right, this is a species made entirely of young pretty men and powerful older women.

also if you put them into captivity they stop eating and die within about a month. the ribbon eel lives to be free~

That’s fabulous

this is a cool thing except its alien mouth I do not like that

村じゅうの人が申し合せによって付き合いをやめ、のけものにすることが村八分。「八分」とは十の付き合いのうちの八という意味。十の付き合いとは、冠・婚・葬・建築・火事・水害・病気・旅行・出産・年忌の十。村八分ではそのうちの葬と火事を除いた八の付き合いが禁止された。
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