The native eels that throng in Sydney’s waterways, including the ponds of Centennial Park, the Botanic Gardens and Victoria Park, compete eagerly for any scrap of food.
But did you also know that there comes a time in every eel’s life when it feels the call to, well, mate. Then, it slithers out of the pond, across grass and path and even road, to the sea, where it swims thousands of kilometres to the Coral Sea, mates wildly in a mass orgy – falls to the bottom and dies.
Then, even more astonishingly, the baby elvers find their way back HOME.
On this episode of The Sydneyist Elizabeth Farrelly is joined by PROFESSOR IAIN SUTHERS from the Sydney Institute of Marine Science to answer all slippery eel-type questions.
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