Today in lunch: eels

As I ate eel for lunch today, I found myself wondering what eels themselves ate. Plants, probably. Maybe seaweed.Wrong. I should have known better. After all, eels are basically the snakes of the sea, and snakes eat more than plants. Snakes are carnivores and eels are, too; they consume microscopic creatures called plankton. Yes, the humble garden eel and the majestic blue whale eat the same thing.Unlike the blue whale, eels don’t flow through the water, swallowing water andmourning beauti