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Which fish migrates roughly 5,000 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean to spawn in the Sargasso Sea, where it dies shortly after?
Answer
European eel
The European eel travels from freshwater rivers across Europe all the way to the Sargasso Sea in the western Atlantic to spawn, a journey of thousands of kilometers that ends in the eel's death.
💡 Did you know?
Arctic terns migrate 44,000 miles annually—the longest animal migration on Earth—experiencing more daylight than any other creature living today.
Other options people guess
- Atlantic salmon
- Bluefin tuna
- Atlantic sturgeon
Topics
- fish
- migration
- ocean
- eels
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