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This term we are doing take action for water. This is about water ways in New Zealand. We are learning things like how to test water clarity, temperature and what lives in it. For Our production me and Louis did an animation on scratch about the creation of earth to show what we have learned.
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This is my long finned eel report.

The Long finned eel is part of the fish family and can only be found in streams, rivers and lakes of New Zealand. With the exception of tonga when they go to find a mate and die.

Long finned eels are tubular in shape and are usually grey and brown, but they have been known to have patches of bright yellow and very rarely they are full in the color. When eels are little, there heads are small and sleek but as they grow there heads grows in to a bulb shape. When they are fully grown there heads go sleek again.

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When you touch an eel you would be surprised to find that there skin is not wet and slimy but actually dry and leathery. One of the detailed features of the ell that we never see is there scales, from a distance it looks as if there skin is perfectly smooth but it’s not, it has tiny little scales embedded. Another feature of the skin is the sensitivity. An eel’s skin is really sensitive and has sensors that help it swim as well as sensing the movements of prey.

Eels hunt by smell rather than sight. Long-finned eels have a well developed sense of smell. They have tube nostrils that protrude from the front of their head, above their upper lip.

Long Finned eels can live between 60- 100 years old, when they get to old they go to tonga and breed they then dye. When they are small, long fins are 1mm long, when they are fully grown they can weigh up to 40 kg in weight.

Long fins can be found all over New Zealand in streams and lakes. Long fins like all types of water but are seldom found a long way of shore, With the exception of going to tonga.

When Long fins are ready to die they migrate to tonga. When they get there they find a mate and breed. Females can lay millions of eggs at one time. After they have found a mate and bread they die. The eggs hatch and the babies find there way back to New Zealand.

Long fins are not just good swimmers but they are good climbers two. It is not rare to hear of an eel climbing a 20 m natural or unnatural barrier.

The long finned eel is a tubular fish that can only be found in the streams of Aotearoa and I hope it is around for many more generations so others can research this amazing creature.

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