Longfin eel

For the last couple of week we have had to create a report about an animal of the teacher's choice. I was told to do longfin eel. Here is the report:

I’m going to explain to you the amazing features of a Longfin Eel. The Longfin Eel has many unusual features such as how it breathes and what it looks like.

The Longfin Eel is a long, tubular-looking creature. It is the largest freshwater eel species. They are usually either dark brown or greyish black. On very rare occasions a Longfin Eel may be bright yellow. They live in the pools of streams. A pool is a deep, cold and slow area of a river.

In Autumn the adult eels leave freshwater and swim from New Zealand to tropical seas somewhere in the South Pacific.  This is the start of their life process. The female lays their eggs, and the male fertilizes them. The adults then die after spawning. Then the eggs hatch into larvae and they float back to New Zealand.

The Longfin Eel’s breathing process is very interesting. What happens is they pump water over their gills and they take in the oxygen from that water before pumping it out of their body.

The Longfin Eel has a very large mouth with rows of tiny, sharp teeth. They use them to break down their food so they can eat things such as worms, insect larvae, fresh-water crayfish and even ducklings.

The last thing you need to know is how the eels have been affected and how you can help. As we know the people of the world have been polluting our rivers, for example plastic bags in the water or chemical waste. Pollution in the water is making an unsafe environment for the Longfin Eels and other marine life to live.

Help the eels by not polluting our rivers, not destroying their habitat and not creating dams (because if we create dams this means that the eels have no place to migrate which may contribute to their extinction).