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From: An Exceptional Story: The Why of Eels

Where do the eels come from, year after year, with such clockwork regularity? And where do they go?

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Learning about eels

You settle in a library nook, surrounded by a heap of ichthyological textbooks […]

[…] you spot a nervous young gentleman staring at you from across the library, his spectacles slipping down his nose […]

Perhaps […] he wanted to check out the same books you're reading? […]

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