#WOLF EEL FISH UPDATE#

In June 2018, after a man in Texas was bitten by a decapitated rattlesnake head, National Geographic and Science Alert penned articles explaining the phenomena: ItвЂ™s likely that the fishвЂ™s nerve endings were still functioning, and that pressure near its jaw triggered a muscle spasm. The original video shows that this fish was decapitated just before a Coke can was pushed into its jaws. While some viewers hypothesized that this fish head was still alive when this video was filmed, itвЂ™s likely that the footage shows an involuntary muscle reflex.

The original video also provides some insight into how and why this decapitated fish head bit down on a can of Coca-Cola.

#WOLF EEL FISH UPDATE#

WeвЂ™ve reached out to the Marine Conservation Institute to confirm and will update this article when more information becomes available. One reason for the confusion may relate to this fishвЂ™s nickname, the вЂњ ocean catfish.вЂќ We compared stills from the GIF with photographs and believe that the marine creature featured in this video is indeed a wolf eel. Head of a wolf eel that can bite you even after the head is detached from the body. Coke,вЂќ but the marine species in the video is labeled a вЂњwolf eelвЂќ and a вЂњcatfish wolf eelвЂќ in the description:ДonвЂ™t stick your hand into the mouth of a dead fish вЂ“ even after you chop the things head off.

Filmmaker RГєni Djurhuus titled the footage вЂњCatfish vs. The original video appears to have been taken aboard a commercial fishing ship. The above-displayed GIF comes from a longer video that was posted to YouTube in January 2019.

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