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Learn to Love… Eels!

The first in a new series on the overlooked and underloved animals that deserve our respect — such as the mysterious eel

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Apart from their appearance on sushi menus or in the occasional bad parody song (“when the moon hits your eyes like a big pizza pie, that’s a moray”), most people probably think of eels with a mix of fear and revulsion. But eels…

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Kat Jercich
Tenderly

Kat is a queer editor and writer living in Chicago. Her Twitter handle is @kjercich.