And as he struggled and squirmed like an eel to escape from him, the Green Fisherman took a stout cord and tied him hand and foot, and threw him into the bottom of the tub with the others.
Max warmed up to the question, and said, " Oh, the place where I worked at, they were experimenting with electricity created by living organisms and then, uh ... I fell into a vat of electric eels."
From here, they follow migration paths to North America and Europe — continents that were much closer when eels established these routes 40 million years ago.
I recognized the Javanese eel, a genuine eight-decimeter serpent with a bluish gray belly, which, without the gold lines over its flanks, could easily be confused with the conger eel.
To try to reintroduce the eels to humans, the aquarium is putting five computer tablets in front of their tank. The public can connect through the FaceTime app.