To an eel

The headline of this New York Times article did its job by getting me to click through to the article:

When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That’s a Moray

But that’s not all. The article includes three brief videos. Here are their captions:

When an eel wants a squid that’s on land—god forbid!—that’s a moray.

If the squid is too flat, there’s no problem with that, that’s a moray.

If the squid is so big, it still eats like a pig, that’s a moray.

The article’s text eschews the moray puns, but does include phrases like “its muscled bucatini of a body” and “as if its tongue were a conveyor belt, sucks the squid even deeper into its mouth using a secret second set of jaws in its throat.”

Well done all around, NYT.

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