The Curious Life & Death of Eels

Rabbit holes to fall down:The Sargasso Sea — where eels are believed to spawn, never observedAristotle's eel theory — he thought they spontaneously generated from mudFreud's lost years — his first scientific research was dissecting hundreds of eels looking for testes, and he failedThe European eel's 6,000km migration it has never been witnessed completingWhy eel populations have collapsed by 90% since the 1980sThe Japanese unagi industry and why it's in crisisGlass eels — the juvenile stage, and the illegal multimillion-euro smuggling trade in EuropePatrick Svensson's book The Book of Eels — the best entry point for anyone who wants to go deeperWe spot them. You fall.Instagram: @spotrabbitholeScript and research: Claude by Anthropic. Voices: ElevenLabs. Music: Suno. Cover art: Grok. The human touch: Producer Martin.