Reel Eels
FTEN I find myself listening to something that was not originally intended for my ears at all, like the first broadcast from 4ZB of "Junior Naturalist." Not being in the company of any youngsters when I heard it, I can’t say how this session will appeal to those for whom it is intended, but three grownup eavesdroppers who listened with me were extremely interested. It proved to be a talk by Crosbie Morrison, well known to listeners for the Wild Life series. His subject was, simply, eels. It is now known that these slippery monsters make their way to the vast deeps of the ocean to breed, the young elvers returning to the rivers to begin another life-cycle; and the story of this incredible under-water migration was as fascinating as the flight of the godwits. The patient years of research necessary to establish the facts of the eel’s lifehistory must cause listeners to regard any member of the genus Naturalist with something approaching awe. Any junior, listeners who may be impelled by these broadcasts to follow the vocation or avocation of a naturalist have my sympathy, but at the same time my admiration and envy, for I too have read my Richard Jeffries and my Barbellion.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 384, 1 November 1946, Page 10
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208Reel Eels New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 384, 1 November 1946, Page 10
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