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Come, Mister tally man, tally me eel.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Unusually colored animals have long captivated us, whether it\u2019s golden snakes or a fish with the pattern of a human face<\/a> on it. Now, a lesser-known uniquely colored animal has appeared in the form of an eel that looks like a banana<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u25bc News report showing the eel swimming around some real bananas for comparison\u2019s sake<\/p>\n\n The banana eel is just an ordinary Japanese eel that underwent a mutation, giving it not only a very banana-like hue but also spots that resemble a very ripe banana. It\u2019s also rather large, at about 80 centimeters (2.6 feet) in length and weighing in at 350 grams (0.77 lbs).<\/strong> According to experts, the fact that it\u2019s a nocturnal animal that burrows itself in the mud means the color was likely not a detriment for it and it was probably about 10 years old.<\/p>\n In fact, its unique colors have spared it from ending up on the dinner table of Akira Ezumi, the 75-year-old fisherman who caught it in Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture<\/strong>. Ezumi said that he had caught especially large eels and even a blue eel before, but this one seemed like a once-in-a-lifetime catch, so he decided to keep it and said he\u2019d donate it to someone willing to give it a good home.<\/p>\n \u25bc Izumo is very close to the hometown<\/a> of our reporter Mr. Sato. Maybe his dad will invite a banana eel into his home.<\/p>\n As rare as it is, this isn\u2019t the first banana eel caught in Japan. In 2022, seven-year-old Yoshihito Ueyama also caught one in Tsu City, Mie Prefecture<\/strong>, and was thrilled because it gave him something to write about for his summer homework.<\/p>\n Readers of the news online were also surprised and delighted by this kind of rare find, with some wondering what it would be like to eat such an eel.<\/p>\n \u201cAwesome! I\u2019ve never seen that before.\u201d<\/em> Some readers also made the common Japanese language mix-up of thinking it was a rabbit that looked like a banana. This is because the Japanese word for eel is \u201cunagi<\/em><\/a>\u201d and the word for rabbit is \u201cusagi<\/a>.<\/em>\u201d Even when reading the Japanese characters it can be easy to gloss over that middle one and make a careless mistake.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, for those of us who fell into that trap, it is now impossible not to imagine a rabbit that looks like a banana and want to see one of those too. Hopefully, someone will hurry up and find one soon.<\/p>\n Source: TBS News Dig<\/a>, Sanin Chuo Shinpo News<\/a>, Yomiuri Online<\/a>, Hachima Kiko<\/a><\/em> Come, Mister tally man, tally me eel. Unusually colored animals have long captivated us, whether it\u2019s golden snakes or a fish with the pattern of a human face on it.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/SI-37.jpg?w=640\")
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\n\u201cThat eel has a lot of sugar spots.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cIs it a golden eel?\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cI wonder if it tastes like banana.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cI\u2019ve seen eels with yellow bellies, but not like this.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cI don\u2019t know why but it looks like it smells bad.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cIs it a banana eel or an eel banana?\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cI thought it looked amazingly like a real banana, but then I realized I was looking at a banana.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cIt\u2019s like a partial albino.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cMaybe it\u2019s caused by global warming.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cIt looks like an electric type.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cIt\u2019s way too big to look like a banana.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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