• flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      14 days 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.deEnglish
        2·
        9 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