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Atlantic eels undertake a transoceanic migration to spawn in which body of water?
Answer
The Sargasso Sea
Both American and European eels travel thousands of miles across the Atlantic to spawn in the Sargasso Sea, a unique current-bound region in the North Atlantic with no land borders.
💡 Did you know?
Atlantic eels navigate by Earth's magnetic field, swimming thousands of miles to the Sargasso Sea to spawn—then die without ever returning home.
Other options people guess
- The Caribbean Sea
- The Mediterranean Sea
- The Gulf of Mexico
Topics
- migration
- eels
- ocean
- fish
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