Started by Inês Carvalho (@tidepoolkid) ·
nobody has ever seen eels mate (and Freud tried)
Every European eel is born somewhere in the Sargasso Sea and swims thousands of km to rivers in Europe, then back to spawn and die. We have never directly observed them spawning in the wild.
6 sources · 58 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Where do eels breed?
- Ended at
- Sigmund Freud
The Trail
- “where do eels come from” (google.com)
- European eel (en.wikipedia.org)
- Eel life history (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sargasso Sea (en.wikipedia.org)
- Johannes Schmidt (biologist) (en.wikipedia.org)
spent ~20 years trawling the Atlantic for smaller and smaller larvae
- Sigmund Freud (en.wikipedia.org)
before psychoanalysis he dissected ~400 eels looking for testes. found none
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