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Creation98 t1_isnv637 wrote

Salmon too. Salmon will go back to the exact same area they were born in to spawn, making the journey hundreds of miles. It’s amazing

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papaloco t1_iso6rdx wrote

That is true, but salmon are very high maintenance compared to eels. You won't see salmon wriggling across a wet meadow to get to a river. Or live in a stagnant pool of algae infested sludge. Eels are bad ass.

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thatguy425 t1_iso9sln wrote

Salmon in my area will swim across a road when it floods and they are not even completely submerged.

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LurkingMcLurkerface t1_isp0c12 wrote

Pulled a 4 foot eel out of the waste water treatment system in work, it either came in as an egg and survived the many chemical treatments and pumps at the front end of the works to get into the waste water treatment stage, where it survived more chemicals and lived long enough to find food and grow to adult size

Or

A 4 foot eel survived being drawn through a number of high speed pumps with impellers spinning at over 1400rpm at a few different stages and then settled down for a nap in the waste water treatment plant.

Both are massively impressive

We released it back to the river, hopefully its doing much better being out of a water treatment facility!!

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SlightlyAlmighty t1_ispafww wrote

That's a nice paradox: if it was spawned there, its offsprings will return. Sadly, the cycle will end then, between the blades of the impellers.

If it had passed through the blades unharmed, maybe more will come to spawn there, repeating the cycle and creating more impeller resistant and junk eating eels that would mutate and fight the ninja turtles

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BGAL7090 t1_ispbeab wrote

"Several years old hyper-adapted aquanautical eels" doesn't have the same ring as "teenage mutant ninja turtles"

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surasurasura t1_ispoddd wrote

Or… a bird dropped it

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LurkingMcLurkerface t1_ispx8dz wrote

A possibily while small if it had been lifted and dropped, unlikely at 4 foot.

Locally we wouldn't have birds of prey large enough to lift an eel of that weight

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Britoz t1_ispm13p wrote

Should've buried it's guts for coconuts

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PA2SK t1_isps7lx wrote

Salmon will cross roads to get to spawning areas: https://youtu.be/wZt4jJEkhWM Salmon are pretty badass. They pretty much work their bodies to death getting up river. By the end of their journey it's like the walking dead.

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dmr11 t1_isqdgfv wrote

Good luck farming eels without it being a raising wild-captured juveniles operation, but you could farm salmon from the egg.

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Caterpillar89 t1_ispe05d wrote

Salmon travel thousands upon thousands of miles from where their parents spawn them to feed and grow in the oceans and then return to the same ocean. There are salmon that are born in rivers in California and go all the way up into the polar regions to feed. Some salmon can travel over 2,000 miles per year.

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Flamin_Yon t1_isphunx wrote

This is completely different in my opinion as the newly hatched eels have literally never been to their destination before and aren't following a river. They just somehow know where to go.

Salmon on the other hand hatch and follow the flow of the river to the ocean, then return to spawn.

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PandaMomentum t1_isqzrud wrote

Monarch butterflies do this too -- the migration from Mexico to the US and back takes multiple generations. It's the great grandkids that show up in the same forest in Mexico each year. Genetically encoded somehow.

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