Welcome back to my blog. Today I am talking about our visit from Don. He catches eels - We have been learning about eels, so this is handy. Here are some interesting facts he told us:
- Eels have slime to slip through small spaces
- Eel can swim forwards and backwards
- Spots on longfin means that it is an Australian Spotted Longfin
- The biggest they've seen longfins grow is 2 meters!
- They have an amazing sense of smell - especially longfin
- Longfin are cannibals - Eat other eels
- They can grab a hold of something they wanna eat and if they can't bite it off they twist their body round and round until they get it off
- Longfin usually have 112 vertebrates (things on their backbone)
- Eels can breathe through their skin
- You can tell how old eels are by cutting their ear bone in half, every year they get a ring in the ear bone - this kills the eel
- Females are bigger than males
- They don't eat while travelling
- Eels try to eat crabs
- Eels don't like sunlight - they come out during the night
- Eels like hiding in pipes
- When you put something in an eels mouth it can't get out - this is due to their small, sharp teeth.
Thank you for reading,
Lexie
This photo is about the largest eel he has found - 2m long
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