Don the eel scientist

Don the eel scientist

Today it was so fun .. we had another visitor into our school to talk to us about Eels! He is a scientist who was really smart. I learnt…

• NZ eels swim to Tonga to have their babies. After they have their babies, they die.
• Did you know that female eels lay 7-20 million eggs at a time?
• If eels can't eat their prey because they can't get through the skin, they grab on with their teeth and spin themselves around 10 times a second so they can drop something off their prey for someone.
• And if someone is coming in the water or creature they hide and then they jump out and grab them. They can feel the water moving when something coming so they know.
• Eels eat  animals whole and they can see what they eat.
• You can tell how old they are by taking out half of the eels ear and counting the rings on the ear bone. Sadly you can only do this if the eel is dead.

I really enjoyed learning heaps more things today I can't wait to learn more about heels in the future is a really cool to learn things about.