Of the 32 eels that were swallowed whole by dark sleeper fish in a recent study, nine of them successfully escaped to safety izumi yokoduka/Getty Eels are evading becoming supper by slipping out of ...

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X-ray videos showed that some young Japanese eels demonstrated that they were not content to become a predator’s meal. By Annie Roth For most animals, ending up in a predator’s stomach means all is ...

Japanese eels use burrowing and swimming motions to move around the seafloor—and to escape from inside the stomach of a predator. Tommy Hui via iNaturalist under CC BY-NC 4.0 Prey animals have evolved ...