Gulper Eel Balloons Its Massive Jaws | Nautilus Live
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- Опубликовано: 19 сен 2018
- Big gulp! The Nautilus team spotted a gulper eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides) doing just that in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Its pouch-like mouth can inflate in an instant, scooping up much larger prey just like a pelican--and giving it that muppet-like look! This gulper eel was likely a juvenile, as this species can grow up to three feet in length.
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Eel: *starts to deflate*
Scientists: *excited scientist noises*
HAHAHA
Reminds me of the Aliens in Sesame Street. XD
"is it... Engorged??? Or does it just kinda.... Look like that...?"
Glad to know the marine biologist has the same reaction to Random Creatures as the rest of us, lmao
Lol it’s so funny to read this
I’m a zoology doctorate student, and regardless of how much I have been around animals and how much I have come to learn about them, their lives, their behaviors, and their habitats, they always manage to surprise me in at least someway everyday.
This is especially true if your someone who is specializing in field research like these guys, there is never any telling what is to be found out there or, what it’s even doing lol.
This is especially true for those of us who have a career specialty in marine life.
The trained scientist asks the questions that we might not - we go "Coo, big head fishy thingy".
@@themotions5967 the thing people also dont realize with the EV Nautilus crew is that theyre not all marine biologists. Some are, others are oceanographers, ROV technicians, geologists, or whatever other relevant weird bit of science theyre pursuing. Animals are still cool for them and they’ll nerd out like the rest, but it isnt their wheelhouse so thats why you get the differences in questions.
Education shouldn't stop questions. It simply helps you ask the correct questions. In turn finding the correct answer.
Me: Being a marine scientists must be a really serious job
Marine Scientists: *"I think he ate too much"*
*"He's doing the s h a k e"*
*"Touch it"*
These guys are so cool
Even seeing something that could be remotely considered/misconstrued as a new species, or behavior we haven’t seen in a documented species is enough excitement for us to pretty much go into kid in a candy shop mentality.
Not to mention these guys are already giddy as can be considering they are doing front line field work right now which is always a blast.
marine scientist lol, lets giggle at an eel.
"Lookit his lil face! :D"
We really ticked him off
This is how all zoologists are, just big kids lmao
How I thought scientists talked: "This is a unique-looking specimen."
How scientists actually talk: "He looks like a Muppet."
"Or is it...like that?" Lol I love that even Knowledgeable Scientists still ask the same questions as us lololol
😂😂😂
I love their enthusiasm. You expected to be all cool and collected and scientific and boring, but they are just as amazed, if not even more, as we are.
@@rebella_alld5108 Well yeah, they're just normal people doing what they love
Science is constant discovery and updating.
Smdh you people.
Despite knowing that much about the field their in, it is the deep ocean (the largest and least explored ecosystem on Earth), so you can’t really be sure you are actually going to find. It could be a fish, a plastic bag, a worm, or something completely new entirely. You never know.
“It looks like a muppet :)”
“Touch it!!!”
“Lookit his little face :D”
Being a scientist sounds like so much fun
Whizzer's terrible horrible no good very bad day trust me it isn't...
It isn't. It's frustrating. But if it something you are passionate about, you can have fun with it sometimes.
“Touch it” isn’t something respected scientists say.
@@kevin6293 no fun allowed
It's so hilarious XD
It's crazy that none of these trained marine biologists were able to immediately recognize perhaps one of the most well-known deep-sea creatures in the wild because no one has ever actually seen what they look like when fully puffed out before. Really goes to show you how important studying animals in their natural habitat is.
Well said
They act like know-nothing high school students. Is it because they are american s?
This behavior wasnt even known before this footage, ofcourse one of them wouldve known it upon seeing that
Gotta love how these proffesional scientists are acting like a bunch of 12 year olds that just got their hands on slime or something, ”ohhh touch it :D” hehe gotta love it 😂
I used to work at an estuarine ecology lab, and sorting specimens is guaranteed to turn grad students into middle schoolers.
When you enjoy what you do!!
The soul of all science. Poking stuff with sticks.
Can't imagine them dead-serious. I mean there are some probably but what would the point of this channel be then ?
Its called being American
The way it wiggles at the end to fold the skin in properly. Dope.
Hey man since u like sublime. I'm sure I'll like the band "Fat lipped fish". Check em out on RUclips
I do the same thing to fold my foreskin in properly.
But where does it go?!?
Have you seen airplanes reverse thrust? That is how they look like.
I'd say that's magic. :)
Eel: : |
Scientists: :0 ???
Eel: :O
Scientists: :O !!!
Thank you :)
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This made my day
Dawid ek and at last eel be like =:>
:\/
"Is that a fish?"
Me: it's a swimming musical note!!
I'm going to dedicate your creative comment to my nephew Lucas 💚
Otamatone
Nice one!
😂😂
🎶
I remember reading about these gulper eels when I was 6, and at my Nan’s house. Artists rendering only. Hahaha.
I just turned 55 and am thrilled to have access to the incredible video of these fish as well as the others this tech and enthusiastic scientific minds provide. Thanks.
Same! I use to want to be a marine biologist and always saw pictures of these. But I honestly wanted to see it on video and now this has me so amazed!
Same here. I remember only being able to see drawings or paintings of these things when I was a kid in the 80s. But now all of the deep sea creatures that were previously only depicted via drawings or dead remains can be viewed in full video. Gulper eels, oarfish, snipe eels, deep sea anglers, barreleye fish, viperfish, and even the giant squid! It's amazing to finally be able to see them all. Some of them even turned out to be weirder than I could have imagined.
I have a feeling that, if you were reading the books I was at that age and time, you were introduced to the *true* Gulper Eels, not this related Pelican Eel (different genus). I know when I googled these, I was not expecting something with this head shape, but rather a vertical lower jaw and a cylindrical body and whip tail. That would be a separate animal.
Scientists should know better than to use conflicting common names.
@@KrillLiberator yes, I agree. I have been an aquarium hobbiest for thirty five years before taking a break from it.
Scientific names are the only way. Often it helps one learn Latin also. Hahaha.
This was actually a scientifically significant find too. This wasnt a known behavior before this video.
"Awh look at this eel so cute and tiny"
*opens massive jaw*
"Nevermind."
I still think he's cute! Deep sea surprise roumdboi 💜
Atleast its not a pelican eel cause those things give me nightmares
@@Dabajaws Yes it is. 🙂 Gulper eel and pelican eel is the same thing. I dunno why, I just think they're cute!
Zuzu
Take ur unoriginal comment and go back into hiding like Justin Y
Still cute :3
"Touch it"
Bikini Bottom Police Officer : Don't touch
dont touch!
Touch
It should be Rock Bottom Police Officer. Gulper Eel is a deep sea fish.
@@lizlee8715 Do I have to follow you all day?
@@Zyk0th W-wait, Jeffrey! I have to touch you!
I swear, the types of things these marine biologists say when they’re exploring is so wholesome and full of passion for the ocean, it’s adorable.
What you hear on the video is not "The types of things marine biologist say when they're exploring".
Thank you for your input Craig🙏
"in my professional scientific opinion,
It looks like a Muppet."
"This isn't even my final form!!!"
Nope “It’s over 9,000!”
LOL!!! xD
Dang. You beat me to it hahaha!
Dragon Ball Z fans assemble
Extremely intelligent science guy: "TOUCH IT!"
JUST A BUNCH OF TWELVE YEAR OLDS LOL!
Mina CrayCray I’ll have you know they are PROFESSIONAL 12 year olds
Mina CrayCray scientists are just kids who never grew up tbh and that's why i want to be one, it's more fun than to live a life of just despair.
Oh come on. Those of us including myself are not so grown up 12 year olds. The job these people have in my opinion is one of the best jobs to have.
that's how scientists make discoveries, by having the open mindedness of 12 year olds.
A scientist is a person who retains the sense of wonder from our childhood and wants to learn more.
Having seen pictures of this eel, in lots of books, and even specimens in jars in museums, you still don’t get a proper idea, of how they look in life, as well as not having any idea of how their interact within the areas they inhabit, or how they move about........
So having these videos, made available to anyone who is interested in them, is obviously wonderful, and it makes the Internet worthwhile, and I am eternally grateful to everyone who helps in making the videos, as well as that make them available to us all........
Once again, thank you 🙏🏻 to everyone involved in these videos........
Stop, putting commas, after every, damn, thought
@@kymriel stop letting the dumbest things bother you enough to be so rude under someone's comment who is just simply showing gratitude.
Same as blob fish, before we captured the live video of them nobody thought they were as normal as other fish
The, Gulper Eel, is, quite a fascinating, marine animal.
Yes, that's how I feel too. Spot on.
*"Touch it"*
*The script in every Hollywood horror movie.*
I love the sound of collective recognition when it deflates.
“ Touch it.“ 😂
the Me of the group
Lick it
Definitely should have at least poked it with a stick
Можно или нельзя? Сунуть туда член. put a dick, realy?
bop it
Eel: *inflates*
Scientists: "wtf is that ??"
Eel: *0.000001 seconds into deflating*
Scientists: "AHH YES THE GULPIUS EELIOUS IS AN AQUATIC CREATURE THAT..."
Eatius slobbius (Warner, 1958)
Lmfao
Personally I call it the living soup ladle.
Not gonna lie the eel was moving in such an awkward way he almost looked like he was poorly animated on a computer
That's how you know when things are computer rendered. They move too well 🤣
Like the "deep fake-" morph-clips nowadays ...
kinda scary how far the technology evolved since AVATAR until now in 10 years.
It's mind blowing how alien these creatures appear to us despite living on Earth longer than we have.
Perception is a crazy thing, isn't it?
Seems pretty natural to me. It’s not all that surprising after being subscribed to this channel for a while.
i don't think they actually lived on earth longer than humans have
depends on what kind of human you are talking about
dancing humans
Ok somebody bring out the pokéballs we're gonna catch him
ELIJAH'S GAME GANG !!! hey is joking bro
@@marxgalacticambition7023 #relatable
DrSharkBoy that happened once in the anime
Basically a Whiscash (idk how to spell it)Spoilers
Swallowed a masterball
uriel galindo orozco his mouth seems like it can trap a thousand pokemon!
I manage to stumble back upon this video every year or so and I always get a smile on my face when the marine scientists are baffled like little children.
More like a bunch of know nothing american high school students.
*tiny spec in the distance*
Scientists: "what is it?"
Gulper: *angy bulging*
Scientists: "awwwww :D"
0:36 "O-Oh, it's t h i c c"
That's what she said
Translation in English?
@@larrog8413 🤡
Love the scientist who undoubtedly has degrees and is way more intelligent than most of us, is first reflex to seeing something new is “touch it!!”
thats the first sign of contact. Touching!
This brings me back when first saw a anthill, being the smart kid i was i put my whole fist into the anthill and that was not a fun experience at all.
nocash what could possibly go wrong?
This just proves we are all just kids before this vast universe.. They just saw something they have not seen before..
Touching things can be used in studies and is the first step in making observations for Scientific Research.
Also like
Just when you think you've seen everything then something like that happens to amaze you. It makes you feel like a kid again just learning about sea life. By the way that's the best clearest water I've seen in years
Every time I start crying for the future (sobbing hysterically, actually), I come here and I watch this video, and the extremely genuine and intelligent reaction of these scientists always makes me laugh.
This one video will save my life every time
We’re gonna be okay 🙏❤️✨
A gulper eel? Please. That was a living otamatone.
Lol I was thinking that
*automaton
@@matthewtopping2061this is a very confident reply for someone who is extremely wrong!
@@GenesisTheKitty I don't even remember what this is in reference to.
I first heard about these things when I was six and always wanted to see a video of one. This might be the first good video of them ever.
Watch Blue Planet’s ‘The Deep’. They have some decent footage of a gulper opening its mouth.
woman: "wow, it just got so big"
man: *nervous laughter*
My wife said the same thing too.
🤣🤣, that was a pretty funny comment!
He did it. He blew up, and then acted like he didn't know them.
What a hero.
Gulper Eels are my favorite animal, I did a report on eels in elementary school and I saw this thing and loved it, cannot believe such clear footage of it was taken! Absolutely brilliant.
I had to do a project on giant squid in 5th grade and ever since I've been obsessed!
I've known about these eels sense I was 4, lol. I love them too, they're so cool
@solar flora who asked you?
@@victorl9461 wow aren't you cool harassing someone for sharing a public comment in a comment section whos purpose is for free commentary on a video🙄
I've known about gulper eels for a while, but I had no idea they ballooned like that as a defence mechanism. I've also never seen such clear footage of one before. Awesome video, keep posting them!
This was recommended to me twice this week, and I still clicked.
Giddy scientist commentary should be the new norm for any captured nature footage. It’s so charming!
These people are literally living my childhood dream. I wanted to be a marine biologist. I’ve instead chosen nursing but my love still lives with sea life.
Live your dream! Get into marine biology, if you can.
you can always change professions chief
You are doing more for the benefit of humanity than these people looking at fish.
Sometimes there is more value in things that are the least exciting, glorified park rangers don't get paid very well and it's not always as exciting as it appears.
you made the smart choice. I also wanted to be a research scientist, so much so that I switched from nursing to biotech after 2 yrs of college. Grad school is a must when it comes to becoming a biological scientist, so off I went, just to drop out a little over a year later. A bachelor's biotech degree is useless when it comes to getting a job, I am regretting so much about leaving nursing.
This is like SUPER RARE FOOTAGE
Probably the first time a LIVE gulper eel has been recorded
Do u live under a rock?
No I live in a pineapple under the sea, duh
@@sawspitfire422 my friend Patrick lives under a rock
This will forever be on the top 10 of my favorite youtube videos of all time!!!
Watching their obvious excitement and intrigue was unexpectedly wholesome. I'm glad you guys are out there doing what you love!
That was so rad! Especially after he opened his mouth & became so tiny. Plus it's always hilarious to hear the scientists read the little guy before figuring out what it is haha!
lil guy was read to FILTH oh lawd
*”INFLATE HIMSELF... JUST LIKE A BALLOON.”*
THIS CRAZY EEL JUST DIGS THIS TUNE
But this eel, has a funny face
Most people do, now they are called "land whales".
I have been watching this on repeat for half an hour now. Nature just blows my mind sometimes.
It looked like it was a 3D rendering at one point, unreal!
I actually thought it had a meal in it's mouth before it opened it's jaws.
Probably it had, in the description says something about this creature capturing it's preys like a pelican.
Same lol
Man it mustve digested its prey fast then...
I remember watching this live and thinking, "What the heck is that weird balloon thingy?" and then laughing my butt off when the eel opened its mouth lol
I was watching this live too! Up until this point it was just a nice calming thing in the background while I worked but my husband and I were both like, WHOA! Did you see that?! Amazing!!
augustevening27 😂
Gulper eel out here doing his best otamatone impression.
Now I can check off my bucket list "Uncontrollable yawning being smitten by a Gulper Eel"
I love the gasping that ensues after it opens its mouth.
"Is it engorged or is it like that?"
*laughs in 12 year-old*
Amanda C “It just got so big!” 😂
You guys are having too much fun! I love it! These under water discoveries are fascinating to say the least! Great job.
The wholesomeness of this video makes me so happy
This is probably the best footage that exists of this creature and will contribute so much to science. Thank you.
I hate it.
+1
I just read that in GLaDOS’ voice.
I've always wondered, why do flat earthers choose whether the world is round as the scientific orthodoxy they want to protest? Isn't that a lot easier to prove than, say, proving the force of gravity? Isn't it easier to argue that time does not exist? Either would be harder for scientists to prove than the roundness of the earth.
Hahahahaa
Guess 123 bro
it looks like a music note when it's ballooned up lol
Now that you mention it, it does! 😆
This is so cute lol
PangoPixel I agree
The best part of all these videos is the scientists’ conversations and unique laughter!
I could cry! I have been following, whatever I could to see these guys for yrs! What great footage. Thank u for sharing. These guys are my most favorite. Gulper eels, spiny eels, wolf eels monkey face eels. I love eels.
An anaconda can dislodge its jaw to eat a way larger pray than it's size.....
Gulper eal: hold my slime.
actually that's a myth. Snake's don't unhinge or dislodge their jaws at all, it's just that the lower jaw (which is composed of 2 separate pieces) is connected to the rest of the skull by elastic ligaments that they use to 'walk' over prey too large to swallow normally, which is everything in the case of large constrictors
*prey (Also, eels are not in the least bit slimy.)
@Jack Snow Oh yeah, I forgot, we're both right. Or wrong, I guess lol. What they actually do is a combination of both things. The snake skull is only loosely connected by very elastic tendons and is composed of 4 parts (the left and right halves of the skull and bottom jaw). There is articulation between the jaw and the rest of the skull, but the snake unhinges it when it swallows something. That's why you see snakes 'yawning' so much, they're readjusting the various parts of their skull and jawbones.
Possibly the best footage of a gulper eel to date
what a time to be alive, i always read about them in my jacque cousteau books as a kid, never thought i'd actually get to see one for real (even if its just on video). Seriously amazing.
This camera quality is spectacular! First video I’ve watched in this channel and I’m sold!!! ❤❤😊
WOWWWW.. lil shapeshifter! :) I'm regretting never pursuing marine biology for my degree lol... but thankful you guys post these awesome clips!
I'm sure you will be happy with your useless psychology degree while you are bartending.
@@Kennypowers51 ppppppft rude
Me too, I wanted to become one in high school but never pursued it.
@@Kennypowers51 ignoramus
Speaking of Psychology, stop projecting dude! You could certainly use a few therapy sessions...
”Look at its litte face!”
”It’s kind of like googly eyes.”
He gave a little performance! What a lad!
Best part of these videos though is hearing these people react to it and love their job
I always find it amusing how that your often given a idea of what scientists are like when your a kid and onward of this super serious people of a much different status than most.
Then you see stuff like this and realize they're just people like us.
That reaction once everybody saw that mouth was absolutely MasterCard priceless!!! 😂😂😂
I'm a curator of a natural history museum, and we have one of these in our collection... So cool to see it alive! I'll definitely be sharing this video!
This was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Your work is just incredible. Thank you!
What we think scientists are like: high IQ, articulate, serious about their work
Scientists irl: lmao wtf is that???
"Is it mad?"... "touch it" 🤣 you can hear another guy do the thats-a-crazy-idea-but-i-like-it laugh in the background 😂
So a school of gulper eels is called a song?
Cos they look like a bunch of key notes? Haha
You see what they call a group of crows?
This was so awesome! I love watching your channel thank you for uploading
pufferfish: finally a worthy opponent. our battle will be LEGENDARY!
Soooo enjoyable to watch...and to hear the scientists’ awe!
Awe and know immediately what it is
Are they scientist? They act like teen age kids
@@BKnerosky yes, they are marine biologists. They're merely excited, most scientists act this way in the field
@@crayolaclouds2696 no they don't
I've always been a great fan of Gulper Eels since I was a kid, really amazing to get some good footage of one! (And then have it look so incredibly grumpy, beautiful)
You’ve known about this specimen since, you were a child? I’ve only known a few species of aquatic animals, when I was younger. You’re awesome.
Yeah, I've always been a huge fan of all the deep sea animals, even held a presentation about giant squids at school once. :D Than you!
Izaya Orihara Oh gosh, me too. I'm always baffled when people think deep sea critters are terrifying. ❤️
For a minute it looks like that Dog on Classic Mario with the chain lol
Doctor:" Pelican eel POG doesn't exist"
Pelican eel POG: 1:26
Gulper eel
When someone says "you have a big mouth," you show them this!
My husband and I were watching this live. Up until this point it there wasn't a whole lot of action; one of the narrators/scientists even called out the lack of fauna in the area they were exploring. This was right at the end of the team's watch and they were getting ready to change shifts and then this happened - SUCH a fun thing to catch live! What a moment for them and the 60-odd people watching live that night :)
I don't know what I enjoyed more. Seeing the eel in all it's glory or listening to the remarks by the Nautilus team.
This thing took so many different forms that I still don’t understand what I was looking at.
I experienced uncanny valley watching it. This is very unique footage. I don't think this behavior has ever been seen.
Movies- Marine Biologist: It's a Gulper eel, it can *intelligent things*
Real life- Marine Biologist: Wow! Touch it
I'm so happy Nautilus is coming back 2020
As a kid who read lots of marine stuffs, i was always amazed by the Eurypharynx. I remember some crappy black and white pictures.
I'm happy to see this footage, it's even better than i imagined ^^
I share your enthusiasm ^^
it looks like a toad tadpole when its ballooning
Imagine the people to discover that.
“Oh hey look at this Bob! Some species of eel, doesn’t look to bad with its- JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS THAT?!?”
Just imagine the the weird things lurking deep down in our oceans that we still haven't discovered yet!
😧
aww so cute! Its like it was sleeping before, yawned, and then left.
This channel has some wholesome 2010s YT vibes, love it
YES! This is what I like to see. This is one of the best videos I’ve seen from you, right up there with the Viperfish and Sperm Whale. This is the sort of footage you don’t get anywhere else. Beautiful.
While you guys are out there collecting data, I think it is worth noting the work you do in expanding our Library of footage of rarely seen organisms. This makes a lot of lives a little better for having seen it. Thank You.
I love how wonderfully nerdy this goofballs are, I mean:
'It's a Muppet!'
'Catch it!'
1:13 "It just got so big!" Guy: 😏
This might be one of the coolest things I have ever seen in my life. Great work guys.
And this is why I've subscribed to your channel. Videos like this one keep me coming back! Amazing.
You know that this is the first image/video found of a live gulper eel, right? All other specimens were dead when their pictures were snapped, and nobody really knows much about them. Nautilus team you guys made scientific history!
Wonder what was irritating the Eel to give us the whole show. Transformer!
Absolutely wicked!! Thanks guys and your enthusiasm on these finds make it even better 👌👌👍
The videos on this channel instantly cure my boredom. These guys are awesome :)