Eels!

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writer/podcaster Katie Goldin (‘Creature Feature’ podcast, @ProBirdRights) for a look at why eels are secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

(Alex’s podcast hosting service requires a minimum of 5 characters per episode title, so that’s why this episode’s title has 1 exclamation point)

LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:

• Katie Goldin on Twitter
• @ProBirdRights
• ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
• When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)
• “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• The Book Of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination With The Most Mysterious Creature In The Natural World by Patrik Svensson, translated to English by Agnes Broomé
• Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat eels who are forgetting humans exist (The Guardian)
• Animal Guide: Elephantnose Fish (Georgia Aquarium)
• Animals: Electric Eel (U.S. National Aquarium)
• Scientists make ‘extraordinary’ find of electric eels hunting in packs (CNET)
• The Truth About Electric Eels Has Long Been Overlooked (The Atlantic)
• Otter Family Defeats Caiman in an Incredible Fight (BBC Earth / YouTube)
• Eel Fact Sheet (PBS Nature)
• To Capture Prey on Land, This Eel Has an Extendable, Extra Jaw Hidden Inside Its Throat (Smithsonian Magazine)
• Disney Wiki page for Flotsam and Jetsam
• Why Is the ‘Eel Daddy’ Building a Pit of Eels In His Basement? (Rolling Stone)
• When an Endangered Species Endangers a Culture (The Atlantic)
• What Is Unagi? A Guide to Buying and Cooking Unagi (The Spruce Eats)
• Jellied Eels (Gastro Obscura)
• Cracking the code of a long-distance swimmer (U.S. NOAA)
• Photo Ark: European eel (National Geographic)
• Fact Check: Nobody Knows How Eels Reproduce (Newsweek)