Sentences with phrase «as eel»

You try the same thing with Van Doesburg and he's as slippery as an eel.

Fish such as eel, cod, flounder and sole are high protein, low calorie, and low in copper.

In the 1920s, a London solicitor named Arthur Kipps is sent north to a grim, moist residence known as Eel Marsh House in order to settle the affairs of its recently deceased owner.

The tags emit tiny beeps that are recorded by underwater receivers and are designed to track many different species of fish including long - living fish such as sturgeon and migratory species of concern such as eel and lamprey.

The fishermen were able to keep the horses they were using as eel bait in the pond by climbing into the trees and waving branches at them.

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.

Catania placed his arm in a tank with a 40 - centimeter - long electric eel (relatively small as eels go) and...

Because sea turtles use a similar magnetic map, the researchers speculate that many migratory marine animals, such as eels, sharks, and seals, may also navigate using magnetic fields.

Back in my childhood days, Rice fields in Bali produced not just rice but also important sources of animal protein such as eels, fish and dragonflies, sometimes frog also added into this category.

Coral Gardens is a Coral Reef formation offering vibrant Coral and Sponges, a multitude of Tropical Fish of all species and colors, as well as Eels and the occasional turtle.

Not exact matches

Rest assured gentle readers, First Things will not rest as we bring you continuing coverage of the nature of eels in all strands of Christianity, and if possible its fellow Abrahamic faith traditions.

I scraped along coral and rocks, as black currents dragged me into a cave, narrow and slimy with eels.

Some people do (A little unsettling that our Government f eels that way imo), but to be frank i think it is rather absurd for anyone to expect a country ON THE OTHER HALF OF THE WORLD that is THOUSANDS of years older than we to have the EXACT SAME values as we do.

«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.»

Items such as wakame (seaweed) salad for $ 4, fried shishito pepper with eel sauce and edamame for $ 6 and tempura spicy tuna roll for $ 8 are a few of the selections on the special eight - dish appetizer menu.

I have to be honest although Welbz works hard i eel as though technically hes not good enough, if sanchez or Lemar had started sunday we would have won the game.

The Sydney Roosters lead the pack in the premiership lottery, followed by the 2017 champion Melbourne Storm, North Queensland Cowboys and the St. George Illawarra Dragons, but even as far down at the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Parramatta Eels can not be ruled out in the 25 - game fixture and the chase to qualify for finals.

Fans decided it would be fun to pelt the United bus with various objects including beer bottles and probably jellied eels as it was the East End.

Your newborn might be too small at first, or might require so much two - handed (and visual) guidance to latch on correctly that attempting to nurse lying down is about as restful as trying to wrestle an eel.

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.

A pair of sea - floor - dwelling eels found off the coast of West Africa have lopsided features that may help them operate as «sit - and - wait» ambush predators

In Germany and France, the fish is sold as «small salmon» or «sea eel.»

Catania can not say, however, whether a leap attack from an electric eel is equally as shocking for all potential predators.

Unfortunately, the artificial eel organs aren't as efficient as their biological counterparts, Mayer says.

In «Electric eels provide a zap of inspiration for a new kind of power source» (SN: 1/20/18, p. 13), voltage was incorrectly described as a measure of energy.

They were thought to protect the fish against predators such as moray eels, but lab experiments on the bullethead parrotfish suggest the cocoons ward off the bites of bloodsucking parasites called gnathiids that spread diseases.

Herzberg said his stories dealt «with obviousness that is not obvious... the stethoscope as the eternal symbol of doctors, mice as our best animal model, eels as simple, almost boring, river fishes.

North American eels are suffering steep drop - offs as well.

One of nature's premier survivors is facing its sternest test yet: Hammered by an array of threats that includes overfishing, pollution, and climate change, populations of freshwater eels, also known as river eels, have fallen to catastrophic lows.

The transparent, leaf - shaped larvae, or leptocephali, look so different from adults that it wasn't until the turn of the 20th century that they were identified as baby eels.

After isolating sensory neurons from frogs and eels, Adrian showed that as the intensity of a sensory stimulus increases, so does a neuron's firing rate, which can peak at 200 spikes per second.

Today the wrecks enjoy a second life as artificial reefs, attracting corals, algae, rays, eels, and tropical fish (including the critically endangered 800 - pound goliath grouper).

Certainly, nothing as anatomically extreme has been observed before in any mud eel, and the researchers speculate that asymmetric eels could be taking a leaf out of the flatfish's book.

For the purposes of comparison, an eel's body has roughly the same dimensions as an adult man's arm.

If the eel lived in air, the current could be as high as one ampere, turning the creature's body into the equivalent of a 500 - volt battery.

But he points out that the eels have not gone quite as far as flatfish.

To envision how the eel uses its electric charge, try picturing the critter's long, thin body as a skinny magnet.

This was a swampy area, and as the nets came in we saw the big eel heads come up.

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.

But big eels, which can measure a meter or two in length, engage in this behavior, as well.

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.

They made a huge noise as they galloped into this pool and there was this kind of epic struggle or sort of battle you could almost say between the horses and the eels.

And as they get higher out of the water sort of that alternative path back to the water around the eel is essentially kind of squeezed off in a sense.

Kenneth Catania: It's almost as if these electric eels have taken a course in physics.

I mean it's almost as if these electric eels have taken a course in physics.

Sort of one of the back stories about eel senses and electric fish senses is that things that are conductive are interpreted often as living beings.

The most extensive reconstructions of individual eel journeys challenge an assumption that Europe's freshwater eels (Anguilla anguilla) migrate and spawn as a group, says behavioral...

The researchers» investigations into fish biofluorescence began with a serendipitous observation of green eel fluorescence off of Little Cayman Island as Sparks and Gruber were imaging coral biofluorescence for an exhibit for the traveling American Museum of Natural History exhibition Creatures of Light: Nature's Bioluminescence.

After isolating sensory neurons from frogs and eels, Adrian showed that as the intensity of a sensory stimulus increases, so does a neuron's firing rate, which can peak as high as 200 spikes per second.