You know what's really cool?

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

You know what's really cool? Sociable eels in small streams on a university campus in New Zealand.

[andymckay@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets glad they aren’t the fabled killer eels I saw on a signpost in Matakana, New Zealand yesterday

[oisin@mastodon.ie]

@sundogplanets Nice!

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@sundogplanets do they come looking when someone stares into the water?

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@sundogplanets With the lack of scale reference I am forced to assume this is a huge river monster, the likes of which I was genuinely kind-of afraid of every time I was near a stream as a kid I think there was a children's show or something about a boy catching an enormous, monstrous eel

[johnmackay@mastodon.social]

@jwcph @sundogplanets Biggest eel I encountered was in 1976 and circa. 5 feet long. I was 15. We caught it after it bit me on the calf crossing a stagnant section of river in Kerikeri, NZ. We took a photo of it with its head cut off and held level with my eyes and its tail an inch or so off the ground. Still have the scar.

[chateauerin@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets that's an ell of an eel

[aetios@sns.minovsky.space]

@sundogplanets a bit bigger than I initially expected reading 'eel'

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets That's a mermaid 🧜

[petraphoenix@beige.party]

@sundogplanets

Eels are bigger than I thought!

[sortius@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets I remember seeing Jeremy Wade's episode of River Monsters on them. NZ eels are pretty special, especially for Māori

[cottoncandyandrazorblades@ohai.social]

@sundogplanets Eels are awesome! And yes, can be quite sociable