352: Spotted Garden Eel

Ellen and Christian get a feel for the garden eel. We discuss fortified butts, science's greatest unsolved mysteries, flirting techniques for the ultimate homebodies, video chatting with eels, and so much more.
Works Cited:
• “Morphological specializations in heterocongrinae (Anguilliformes: Congridae) related to burrowing and feeding (researchgate.net/publication/6455013_Morpholog…)” - N. De Schepper et al., Journal of Morphology, March 2007
• “Spotted Garden Eel (calacademy.org/learn-explore/creature-closeups…)” - California Academy of Sciences
• “Peek-A-Boo with Hawaiian Garden Eels (youtube.com/watch?v=HD8xQKkyUmI)” - Nature on PBS, YouTube
• “Life in the flow: unique adaptations for feeding on drifting zooplankton in garden eels (journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/221/16/jeb…)” - Alexandra Khrizman et al., Journal of Experimental Biology, August 2018
• “Spawning behavior of garden eels, Gorgasia preclara and Heteroconger hassi (Heterocongrinae), observed in captivity (researchgate.net/publication/281059120_Spawnin…)” - Tomohiro Kakizaki et al., Marine and Freshwater Behavior and Physiology, August 2015
• “This Japanese aquarium wants you to FaceTime its shy eels (cnn.com/travel/article/shy-eels-intl-scli-scn)” - Emiko Jozuka, CNN Travel, May 2020
• "First direct evidence of adult European eels migrating to their breeding place in the Sargasso Sea (nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19248-8)" - Rosalind M. Wright et al., Scientific Reports, October 2022
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