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Skinned and gutted fish still moving

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  • 30-06-2010 12:12pm
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    cruizer101
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    This is pretty freaky, the dogfish is skinned and gutted but it is still moving about.

    Any ideas how this is happening, I do have a bit of a theory but like to hear other opinions first.


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    Zombienosh
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    eww fish


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    smcgiff
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    cruizer101 wrote: »
    This is pretty freaky, the dogfish is skinned and gutted but it is still moving about.

    Any ideas how this is happening, I do have a bit of a theory but like to hear other opinions first.

    Mcafee warns against opening link


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    Dublin_Gunner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    Must be McAfee being super again.

    Opened fine for me. Very strange vid!


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    TheBastard
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    i've caught a dog fish before and 4-5 hours later he was still alive and ok.

    i gave him a few belts on the head and he still seemed like i'd just caught him.

    horrible looking fish


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    vibe666
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    its probably just electrical impulses in the muscles.

    i went sea fishing when i was a kid with a bunch of proper fishermen and my dad and we had caught some eels and they had been beheaded and gutted in the sink (ready to be come jellied eels, eew!) and were still slithering around in the bowl right up until they were chopped into chunks.

    afaik, some of the electrical impulses for muscle movement come from the spinal chord, not directly from the brain and since that's still intact and in contact with those muscles, it's possible for them to keep moving if there is still electrical charge left in the body.

    either that, or they're laying on tinfoil because someone has it hooked up to a battery and is passing current through it to stimulate the muscles and make it look like they're moving on their own. :)


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    ScumLord
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    smcgiff wrote: »
    Mcafee warns against opening link
    That's because Macfee is a load of rubbish.

    The same thing can happen to any animal with a spine I suppose it depends how the animal was killed and what kind of damage is done to the upper spine.


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    Basq
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    The exact same thing happened with this prostitute I once skinned and gutted wh..
























    .. I've said too much!


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    Azphyxi8
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    Same thing happens with eels. You could cut the head off an eel, throw it back in the water and it will swim away.


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    cocalolaman
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    He got some of the lemon juice in his..erm..muscles..


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    My name is URL
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    I don't care what causes it.. I wouldn't be eating it after seeing that!


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    Motley Crue
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    Liverpool woman - "The Fish is Moving.......But It's Dead!"

    It's like that scene with the Eggs from Ghostbusters, I would have called someone

    Or Mythbusters


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    Boxoffrogs
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    I reckon, there are two live fish wrapped in the catfish*, there is far too much movement for me to think otherwise.

    Edit,: dogfish


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    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,068 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Apparently the salt is what causes it

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YZJt_Bw3eo


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    Basq
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Apparently the salt is what causes it

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YZJt_Bw3eo
    So that's how Jim Hensen came up with Kermit!

    PS - the frog on the left has got some moves!


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    Morlar
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    It's true about the eels I have skinned and gutted them and they don't just move they seem to react and plus they are actually quite strong. Spooky.


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    Takeshi_Kovacs
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    Seen this a lot in slaughter houses as well. You'd often see a beef carcass split in two, gutted, and the hind quarter would still be twitching a lot.

    In the frog video, the salt is providing sodium ions (ie causing very small electric impulses) which in the fresh meat, caused the still intact muscle cells to twitch


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