• flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Nah, if it’s eels in NZ (the ODT bring a local rag here), they hide in the shadows of riverbanks.

    I do think there’s some bizarrely complex life cycle though, like mating out in the deep ocean and spawning at the top of rivers, so a horrendous commute but I’m beyond sketchy on the details

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      29 days ago

      fwiw the image seems to be of electric eels, which are not closely related to proper eels, proper eels being the ones with the wackydoodle larva-on-the-other-side-of-the-world lifecycle

      and i’m pretty sure proper eels exist basically everywhere