Stephanie Bowman feeding eels at Pukaha

Stephanie Bowman is an artist who fell in love with the longfin eel when she visited NZ a few years ago. She then painted some beautiful but informative pictures and put them together with some text to tell the story of Velvet and Elvis - a longfin eel who makes her way back to the Tongan trenches and her elver who comes back to NZ. It is a childrens book which Stephanie hopes will be published before the end of the year.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Longfin
• eel
• tuna
• Pukaha
• NZ
• Stephanie
• Bowman

[aak711]

Nice video,

but don't they give a dangerous electric shock?

[tikouka65]

@aak711 Not at all - they are not electric eels. They feel amazing - like Velvet. And when they bend they wrinkle.

[mrerrorpro]

those are some bigg eels how long have use had the for are they still alive today

[tikouka65]

@mrerrorpro They are at Pukaha Mt Bruce in the Wairarapa - which is a wildlife centre. They feed them every day from a feeding platform at 1pm.

[zephspacer]

You do understand these are dangerous right?

[tikouka65]

@zephspacer - if you understand and respect them ...no worries mate !! Not that I would be in there feeding them - happy to film. But they are beautiful and unique !!

[nongboom1234]

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[reignevil]

i'd love to get laid with one of those

[honeyeyez27]

that looks cool!

[TheBastered]

@aak711 there is different of ocean version and the river, lake version eel. Its hard to explain from all from the start, so I won't go though all how it start.

[hunthicks]

If there's one thing I will always hate, it's eels. I try to return them to the water if they are caught by accident while fishing, but I really would rather never see one again. Eels, snakes and leeches. Three things I could do without.

I'm kind of confused why you don't just feed them by throwing handfuls of feed in the water.

[l3tspl4yb4ll]

whats wrong with u!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they are so mean i got bit by one of those fuckers in italy

[jamebean1992]

electric eel?????

[HERMIONE109]

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[Chetchaichana2525]

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