Sentences with phrase «when eels»

When eels stack thousands of the organ plates in a row, their bodies can produce much higher voltage electric fields.

That makes sense because when an eel is mostly submerged, the majority of the electricity dissipates in the water.

Catania placed his arm in a tank with a 40 - centimeter - long electric eel (relatively small as eels go) and determined, in amperes, the electrical current that flowed into him when the eel struck.

When an eel zaps its prey, positively charged potassium and sodium atoms inside and between these cells flow toward the eel's head, making each electrocyte's front end positive and tail end negative.

When the eel curls up in this horseshoe shape, something similar happens — it produces a strong electric field.

Not exact matches

«For mornings when the skies are grey and you eel as if your immune system could do with a boost, try this smoothie bowl, which is loaded with vitamin C and anti-inflammatories.»

On several of the islands there are divers who enjoy going under at night, when flashlights offer a different, eerie world where eels swim in the open, lobsters stir sociably in the sand and the eyes of checkerboard shrimp wink red in the edge of light.

When David Cameron described Ed Miliband as «wriggling like an eel» yesterday, he was following a long tradition of comparing politicians to a non-humanoid creature.

The electric shock was strongest when the electric eel was farthest out of the water.

But when faced with a large land - based predator, eels will launch themselves from the water and electrify the animal with a touch of the head.

But then Catania witnessed something odd while working with electric eels: When he reached into his eels» cage with a large net that had a metallic rim and handle (he was wearing gloves), the eels would attack the net.

New research reveals that swollen tissue on the back of the eel - like creatures (Petromyzon marinus, pictured), known as rope tissue, heats up when a male encounters a female.

Red rock shrimp, which rely on camouflage as they remove parasites from moray eels, doubled the amount of calcium in the cuticle that makes up its exoskeleton when the pH level was reduced, meaning the seawater was more acidic.

These crab roe, once fabulously abundant in the bay, began disappearing in the late 1990s when a new fishery began harvesting them as bait for eels and conch.

And the convenient thing or the great thing about this behavior is in the old days when people studied sort of what the eels is giving off they would take the eel out of the tank and put it on a table»cause it turns out they're air breathers.

In total there are 15 closely related species of freshwater eels in Lake Tanganyika, each with its own distinct lifestyle — and their common ancestor probably arrived there at least 7 million years ago, when the lake first formed.

When a fish corpse reaches the bottom, every bit of flesh and bone is slowly scavenged by eel - like hagfish, starfish, and swarms of tiny crustaceans called amphipods.

When he's not training electric eels or organizing anacondas, Dowd is working to promote a project he helped found shortly after that Amazon expedition.

And indeed the 50 - centimeter - long, eel - like creatures can wreak havoc on freshwater communities when they invade from the sea.

Eels migrate twice in their lifetime: once as four inch — long larvae from the Sargasso Sea to coastal waters and rivers of Europe and Northern Africa, and again after maturing for a decade or more, when they return to the Sargasso to spawn and die.

The authors are «taking advantage of the fact that [with] eels, when they enter and colonize an estuary, you have a concentration of them,» she says.

He gazes out the window at icy Eel Pond and Buzzard's Bay beyond it, then throws a wistful glance at a photo of Woods Hole in summer, when he sails his wife's 41 - foot Beneteau sloop, Origins.

But Humbolt was vindicated last year, when Catania published a study showing that electric eels indeed jump in the air to jolt potential predators.

This two - pulse signal seems to tell the eel whether possible prey is living when information is limited, such as in murky or rocky environments, where the prey is hidden, the researchers say.

When prey fights back, eels just — curl their tails.

GOTCHA When an electric eel's prey fights back, the eel can simply reposition its body to intensify the effect of its shocks.

When she took on the eel assignment for us, she said it sounded like fun.

The nearly four - foot - long electric eel draws a crowd, particularly in December, when it causes the lights on a nearby Christmas tree to twinkle.

When you get into the science of the eel and you find that its body is constructed of all these little tiny batteries, of sorts, that are powered biologically, that is where the real interest is,» says Carnell.

Dress: Fighting Eel / Heels: Jeffrey Campbell / Sunnies: Karen Walker / Watch: Michael Kors Now that I have an office job (I'm an account executive at a local PR firm), I get seriously excited when I find outfits that function for both the office as well as for whatever plans I happen to have that night.

This sequel to the Daniel Radcliffe - starring The Woman In Black advances the story to 1941, when two teachers evacuate a group of schoolchildren to the abandoned Eel Marsh House during the blitz.

He encounters a group of dingo-esque beasts that are intent on ripping him apart (he soon steals a pup and raises it as a viciously loyal pet), and when he falls into a pool of undrinkable water, it is only to find himself surrounded by eels.

When Dillon accidentally falls into a tub of genetically engineered electric eels, he transforms in to Electro, who has the power to control electricity.

Before long, she, Lockhart and Volmer will find themselves locked in a strange battle for survival that mixes bloodlust, incest and a horde of carnivorous eels in what can best be described as an unholy mess that still manages to entertain when it isn't preposterous.

Things become even worse for OsCorp when Max Dillon, an electrical engineer, falls into a vat of electric eels.

When Pembroke won't leave without a fight, Lockhart descends into the sinister underbelly of the place, finding secrets (and eels) lurking behind every corner and far more at stake than meets the eye.

Because when I'm drunk, that'll look like it says «Owl Eel»!

Having said that, this diesel knocks away like a woodpecker quartet when cold, the running characteristics are still more electric eel than pussycat, and when pushed hard the voice becomes loud and croaky.

When cholera strikes Eel's tenement - like neighborhood, most residents assume that poisonous air is to blame.

To put that in perspective, 110 volts is the equivalent the quick zap you get when you rub your stocking feet on a rug then touch someone; 600 volts is equivalent to voltage an electric eel produces, which can stop a heart.

BC in Sydney, where there were literally dozens of them on every piece of eel grass and bull kelp stalk and I kid you not, I would probably be under - estimating when I say thousands of them in view.

This week one of the Banded Pipefish found itself in a slightly awkward situation when it got a bit to close to a hungry Ribbon Eel.

When a snorkeler, or diver approaches, or even someone peering over the side of a pier, the eel will withdraw into his lair until the threat passes.

When you're diving, keep an eye out or you might miss an eel peaking out of the yellow tube corals.

- Snorkel with Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles - Manta and Eagle Ray sightings - Octopus and Eel sightings - Dolphin sightings - Whale watching when in season

The dive sites on the Aliwal Shoal include two wrecks, the Produce and the Nebo which can only be dived when the current is not to strong dive sites on the Aliwal Shoal include Shark Alley, Pinnacles, Raggies Cave, Manta Point, Chunnel, Anvil Flats, South Sands, False Cathedral, Tiger Cove, Northsands, Eel Skin and Cathedral.

At slack tide, when there is no current at all, you can stop to see the smaller creatures such as Blue ribbon eels, Orangutan crabs and some nudibranchs.

Anne's Place: 18 metres This is a beautiful site when visibility is good - swim past a series of coral sculptures rising from the sea bed, and look out for stingrays, snappers, moray eels and groupers.

An uncrowded Cayman dive experience means when you see that turtle, eel or fun marine critter you have space and time to look at it or take a photo of it.

Diving at night is when you'll be most likely to encounter octopi, morray eels out and about, lobsters roaming the reef and many other critters.