• JargonWagon@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      That diagram isn’t making sense. The tube goes directly from the stomach to the anus? Everything else is just ignored? Either I’m missing something or this is AI slop.

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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        11 days ago

        No, it’s not AI, you can search the snail anatomy in the web, and you’ll see, that it is the correct anatomy for this genre of snails

      • Manticore@lemmy.nz
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        13 days ago

        Probably doesn’t need as much intestine as we do, so the length of that tube is sufficient. Or perhaps most of the ingestion is done in the stomach.

        Or the diagram coyld be simplified for illustrative purposes, like how our human models focus on internal organs and dont often draw, say, the visceral sack they sit in, and the webbing that weaves our organs together so precisely that surgeons can jiggle us on the table to slot them back into their places.

        And yeah, that is where the snail anus is…

    • python@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      They’re like 1/3 neck 2/3 torso! You can actually kinda see where the neck turns into the torso because of the difference in thickness, I marked it with a green arrow here:

      It’s a lot easier to see in person though since the chest moves when they breathe so you can be sure that’s where the lungs start.

    • piranhaconda@mander.xyz
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      13 days ago

      Head positive, tail negative (seriously)

      It’s pulsed though, not sure how well it would charge a battery

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        So, according to the diagram, the butthole of the eel is the positive electrode?

        Or did I miss something here?

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          13 days ago

          That “did I miss something here?” really instills an image of you standing at a workbench with a live electric eel, various electronics parts, and an IKEA instruction booklet in hand trying to get this thing to charge your phone.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    13 days ago

    they also arnt EELs, they are a type of knifefish, which are a sister clade to CATFISH, which also can produce electricity in some species.