![]() ![]() Essentially, the jaw is programmed to bite. "This is obviously a neuromuscular reflex, with receptors in the jaws and/or mouth cavity which register if anything (a prey, normally) is in the mouth," said Björnsson. So how did the fish manage to bite the can after being decapitated? This they bite down very hard with very sharp teeth, and they don’t let go. the contents of a bottom trawl is dumped on the deck of a trawler and the fishermen stand knee-deep in various species of fish, working on sorting and separating, an often-used routine was to stick a broom handle or similar into the mouths of the stray wolffish in the catch, so that nobody would be hurt by accidentally sticking a hand or a foot in their gaping jaws. "The wolffishes have a notorious biting reflex which is well-known by fishermen," said Björnsson. "Thus when e.g. ![]() It eats crustaceans as well as mollusks, smaller fishes, and worms. Newsweek reached out to Rockhold for comment, but it's not the only time that a fisherman (or an eel!) has made the news.Ī Maine fisherman caught a pregnant lobster, gave her two fish "for the road" and threw her back into the ocean, footage shows.Ī shrimp eel took beachgoers in Georgia by surprise when it washed ashore.Īnd a long-standing state record for the largest American eel caught in Missouri has been broken after 28 years."I would most definitely think that this is a spotted wolffish ( Anarhichas minor)," Professor Björn Thrandur Björnsson, head of the fish endocrinology laboratory at the University of Gothenburg, told IFLScience. The spotted wolffish is found in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and can grow to almost 2 meters (6.5 feet) in length. Females can lay up to 10,000 eggs in their dens, where both the male and female care and guard them for four-to-five months while they hatch and mature. The Seattle Aquarium says that juvenile wolf eels spend their early lives in the open water: "Once they mature and find a mate, they select a den and typically spend the rest of their lives living in it." Imagine a snake slithering on the ground. While at sea, wolf eels live in water as deep as 740 feet–where they swim in deep S-shapes. Reid added that the creature is almost enamored with not being seen, with aquarium visitors getting good views typically during afternoon feedings. It may be a vicious-looking eel, but it totally has the opposite temperament." "Their jaws are very strong and if you got your finger in there you'd regret it. "They've got faces only a mother could love," said Scott Reid, who cares for wolf eels at Monterey Bay Aquarium. However, the aquarium said wolf eels are not usually targeted by fishermen–such as the ones who carefully placed the eels back in the water in the aforementioned TikTok videos.
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