Caroline Durif

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The Infinite Monkey Cage · What’s the deal with eels? – Lucy Porter, David Righton and Caroline Durif · 26 Nov 2025 podcast

But the maximum size of the eels we study would be one meter.

And you rarely encounter those.

So they're usually 60 centimeters.

One very special characteristic about eels is that they can live out of the water for many hours.

There's a Michael Gove one.

just always have my suspicions but that's amazing so they so so yeah and the mucus helps so that they don't dry up and also it allows them to breathe through their skin somehow to at least yeah to get some oxygen so how long could they how long can they be out of the water for

Well, if it's cold, if it's not in the sun, right in the sun, then they could stay.

I mean, I've sometimes, because they also have this ability to escape, which is crazy.

If you have a tank, you really have to block all of the little holes.

Otherwise, they'll find the tiniest one, and they're just like...

climb up the wall of the tank, and then the next day you just find them on the floor.

And I've found eels on the floor up to 24 hours, I guess, after I've left them.

And that also, there are many stories when they go to reproduce at the time of their migration.

then they will, sometimes if they're in a landlocked lake, and then they're able to cross over land in wet grass to reach the stream or to reach the sea, actually.

It's like British people going to Magaluf.

We like to reproduce by the sea.

This is why they're so fascinating as well, because people have found them in the grass trying to reach another water body.

And maybe that's why also they're kind of scary and remind people of snakes in addition to their anguillid form.

So the connection David is talking about between there were these larvae that are called leptocephalus.

Lepto means leaf and cephalus means head.

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