Gulper eels portrayed 20 years ago: "A big mouth so that it may swallow things larger than itself! Truly horrifying." Gulper eels portrayed now: "Lol, balloon."
@@chinchilla641 when you're 6 years old you don't ever take that into account and just have it sitting in the back of your mind whenever you go to the beach.
Bruh if that thing gets close to you your literally getting swallowed in a second, it’s adorable when passive but hostile it will swallow damn near whales
Fascinating. I can recall seeing a drawing of one of these bizarre critters in a children's illustrated science book back in the 1980s. It seriously made no sense to me (though I found the concept of bioluminescence intriguing). I couldn't work out how it caught & swallowed it's prey down in the deep dark waters where it lives. Watching it capture prey with that extraordinarily wide mouth, you can see that it creates a suction that pulls tiny fish into it's mouth & then uses the ingested water to push it's meal into it's stomach. I wonder if it ever uses that ballooning effect to deter predators (much like a puffer fish)?
@@Thumbsupurbum it wouldn't keep it from being swallowed by a predator that kept trying, but, many predators will give up if the prey suddenly appears larger or changes shape. Sometimes if prey changes shape enough, the predator just doesn't know what it's chasing anymore and backs off to be on the safe side :)
Correction, gulper eels are actually not true eels. True eels are in the order anguilliformes (an-GWIL-loh-fohrmz) whilst gulper eels are a bit confusing taxonomically, but I like to believe that they share the same order as true eels, but most people claim that the belong to saccopharyngiforms (sa-coh-fuh-RIN-juh-fohrmz) Despite the debate between these two differences, gulper eels are still not true eels and are in a different group of animals, but I can definitely understand the confusion.
Maybe it balloon up to make itself look bigger as defensive mechanism against predator or intimidation. It probably sees the submarine as big predator/enemy/big evil think
Is the eel being filmed around the bottom of the raft the guys are standing on, or is that a submersible in deeper water? If it is the bottom of the raft, why is this guy hanging around in such shallow water?
@@jemgodspeed small stuff?? No that thing right there can swallow sharks, humans, idk about whales but the only thing that is down there with the gulper eel are squids, Angler fish, and other gulper eels
"But its in waterrrrrrr, so whaaaaateverrrrr" haha. If this animal fucking flew around in the sky we, humans would have made it extinct already. Thatd be some scary shit.
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Gulper eels portrayed 20 years ago: "A big mouth so that it may swallow things larger than itself! Truly horrifying."
Gulper eels portrayed now: "Lol, balloon."
and here I was afraid of an eel my entire life to find out it was only an over-hyped fish-balloon
:))
I'm still afraid of morray eels. Aggressive creatures.
How often do you find yourself dozens of yards under the sea? I'm just asking since you're scared of it.
@@chinchilla641 when you're 6 years old you don't ever take that into account and just have it sitting in the back of your mind whenever you go to the beach.
Over hyped? The thing can swallow whales😂 and will swallow you if you get close to it, they are dangerous when hostile
Lmao I thought they were scary this whole time but now they're just adorable😭😭😭
Until it swallows u
Bruh if that thing gets close to you your literally getting swallowed in a second, it’s adorable when passive but hostile it will swallow damn near whales
Yeah it can swallow me or not but what's y'all point? It's still cute
@@davidferraez9776 the “lmao i thought they were scary” is saying that you aren’t suppose to fear it
@@withered3017 cause I don't?
That eel just blew my mind.
Fascinating. I can recall seeing a drawing of one of these bizarre critters in a children's illustrated science book back in the 1980s. It seriously made no sense to me (though I found the concept of bioluminescence intriguing). I couldn't work out how it caught & swallowed it's prey down in the deep dark waters where it lives. Watching it capture prey with that extraordinarily wide mouth, you can see that it creates a suction that pulls tiny fish into it's mouth & then uses the ingested water to push it's meal into it's stomach.
I wonder if it ever uses that ballooning effect to deter predators (much like a puffer fish)?
Seems like a rather fragile adaptation to use for defense. At least puffer fish have spikes on them.
@@Thumbsupurbum it wouldn't keep it from being swallowed by a predator that kept trying, but, many predators will give up if the prey suddenly appears larger or changes shape. Sometimes if prey changes shape enough, the predator just doesn't know what it's chasing anymore and backs off to be on the safe side :)
Maybe a swift
@@Thumbsupurbum I mean to be fair only a couple of pufferfish species have spikes. Most pufferfish are just smooth balls when they puff up
It inflates itself, just like a balloon
This crazy eel just digs his tune
HUH
_Gulper_
_Gulper eel_
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I was afraid nobody else thought of that lmao
This is High key my favorite animal
Correction, gulper eels are actually not true eels. True eels are in the order anguilliformes (an-GWIL-loh-fohrmz) whilst gulper eels are a bit confusing taxonomically, but I like to believe that they share the same order as true eels, but most people claim that the belong to saccopharyngiforms (sa-coh-fuh-RIN-juh-fohrmz) Despite the debate between these two differences, gulper eels are still not true eels and are in a different group of animals, but I can definitely understand the confusion.
Maybe it balloon up to make itself look bigger as defensive mechanism against predator or intimidation. It probably sees the submarine as big predator/enemy/big evil think
You lost me at "big evil"
@@theaveragecomment1014 I think they mean big evil thing
@@mrendroid609 I didn't mean the thing or think part.
@@theaveragecomment1014 this is so funny it’s crazy that she /he didn’t kno what u was talking about
I never thought I'd see a Gulper eel on video. so glad we have people going down to film these amazing creatures up close.
I feel like I just found part of the inspiration for Zamtrios...
I love it.
Hi feral! Didn't expect to see you here
@@mechamudskipper Haha, really? I couldn't help but comment on this. This eel is hecking awesome!!
My gf can do some strange things with her mouth too
lol
Reminds me of one of the creatures in Stephen King’s Langoliers
0:55 does it try to swallow the sub?
No I don’t think so.
This video doesn’t actually tell you anything about the Pelican Eel.
seeing how it can do that deep under water without imploding is enough
Because, they hardly have any data on the eel, though, these studies will help.
Why would it implode, Marv? Why don't you implode when you take a breath?
Markle2k you think its the same to be several hundred meters under water breathing versus being on land?
Marv, it's inflated with water, not air. It's filling a plastic bag by stretching it and shaking so that air goes in (or water when under water).
thank you!
This is what the internet was made for!
Zoobooks portrayed this as a scary AF creature, then along comes TH-cam to kill the ZooBooks Myth
Is the eel being filmed around the bottom of the raft the guys are standing on, or is that a submersible in deeper water? If it is the bottom of the raft, why is this guy hanging around in such shallow water?
Великолепные кадры - природа всегда удивляет - молодцы .
Gulper eel when looking at the camera while inflated be like : . ______ .
Looks like a Pokemon.
"hiya georgie would you like a balloon?"
Otamatone is a fish
0:44 I thought for a second that was a monster in the background
@@hopelltt Lol
dude the mouth amazes me
He has no style, he has no grace
I was hoping to see this reference in the comments.
I live in the Azores... I am scared...
this video looks edited, with cutscenes, where is the original video/documentary?
I want more! Much more!
didn't knew my islnads would have such a cool animal
squad
Looks like something straight out of Aliens movie 🤣
こんな異質な生物を直接みたらビックリして心臓が飛び出そうだな
It’s a pufferfish with jaws and a tail
what would it taste like?
Amazing!
Incredible Specis ❤️
A 2 minute ad that you can't skip.. really....
F
Does it eat fish or microscopical stuff?
shrimp and other small stuff
@@jemgodspeed small stuff?? No that thing right there can swallow sharks, humans, idk about whales but the only thing that is down there with the gulper eel are squids, Angler fish, and other gulper eels
Donuts
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What dat mouf do tho
Help! She's trying to eat the submarine!
So CUTE😂😂😂😂
Now the question is, is it wrong for them to try and take a specimen for research instead of just observing them?
Most of the specimens they have collected have already been dead
Удивительные существа таятся в морских пучинах!
That's a gulper eel
Ah, yes, my least favorite animal. God really has abandoned the ocean.
Gulper eel be like 🎵
What that mouth do?
One thicc scinni boii
the balloon is very jiggly 🙈
“The strange things it can do with its mouth”
They might as well start calling me a pelican eel too **insert Fuckboy emoji here** /j
"But its in waterrrrrrr, so whaaaaateverrrrr" haha. If this animal fucking flew around in the sky we, humans would have made it extinct already. Thatd be some scary shit.
Hi Ibushi
Very very weird.
Nature needs to calm down
It's thin jaw looks like it would snap if you touched it🤢
実物見たい
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
*Wat dat mouth do?*
Yo what that mouth do eel?
bem legal,é um bichinho alienigena rs
Who’s here from the National Geographic video ?
why they have such a head? because God created them like that!
They said:👁️🕳️👁️🎈
I swear God is one crazy dude! How does one think this up?!? I wonder what more there is to see...
Looks fake as hell
سبحان الله الغالق العظيم
wtf lol VERY INFORMATIVE
God made that amazing! 😍
very cool freak :)
It would not have survived evolving.