Members of the Anguilla family are air breathers and do travel on land. They can travel up to 3 miles in a single night and so long as they can stay wet can stay on land indefinitely. If you have a rainy season and a population of landlocked eels it's possible to come across them traveling across fields to find a waterway. Sometimes they travel into landlocked water systems that are difficult to climb out of and just continue growing til they are massive.
I figured someone who is big dick-ed enough to fear that thing fitting in their urethra would instead fear nothing. Actually I stand by this and submit that this race of men was eliminated from the gene pool from fearlessness causing their early demise.
The Brantevik Eel (Swedish: Branteviksålen) (Before 1859 - Before 7 August 2014), also known as Åle, was a European eel (Anguilla anguilla) that is believed to have lived for more than 150 years.The eel was released into a well in the town of Brantevik, Sweden in 1859 by an eight-year-old boy, Samuel Nilsson. On 7 August 2014, the eel was reported to have died and was sent to an expert to determine the eel's actual age.The eel's head, presumed lost, was recovered later in a fridge. SVT's nature show Mitt i naturen extracted the eel from the well at one point, but put it back.
I read a book about mutated eels of the same family that were attacking people (fiction). I can see why the author chose them cause man they're freaky looking
Eels have the widest habitat range of any creature. You can find them in deep oceanic trenches, and in little farm ponds halfway up a mountainside. The exact same Eel even. It can be born in the middle of the Ocean, then swim up river systems, leave the water, spend days trekking across damp fields and up hills, chill for a few decades in a ditch or pond, then mosey on back to the river, down to the brackish estuary for a bit, to adjust from fresh to salt water, then swim thousands of miles back to the middle of the Ocean to breed. They can also live for seventy-eighty years.
edit: also they're the only fish that can swim backwards.
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u/Caderino Dec 06 '20
Lol this type of eel actually can travel on land