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Just about any sushi-lover knows what unagi is – it’s eel, or more specifically, the Japanese freshwater eel Anguilla japonica. What those people might not know, however, is that the eel glows green ...
A researcher performing a backpack electrofishing survey in a coastal river in southern Hokkaido, Japan, where eel abundance was assessed across 105 rivers. The distribution of Japanese eels (Anguilla ...
Eels really are slippery customers. Juvenile eels captured by fish can escape by wriggling backwards through the predators’ gills. This unique behaviour, never seen before, has been filmed by Yuuki ...
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