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IN a previous communication on the behaviour of elvers in the Dutch Wadden Sea1 it was pointed out that the animals most probably use the tidal streams for their migration from the open sea to inland water. They are carried inward by the flood at higher water levels, and go down to the bottom during the ebb tide so that they are not carried back seaward. This means that elvers should be able to discriminate between ebb and flood tide. The suggestion was made that this discrimination was based on changes in salinity during the tidal cycle.
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CREUTZBERG, F. Discrimination Between Ebb and Flood Tide in Migrating Elvers (Anguilla vulgaris Turt.) by Means of Olfactory Perception. Nature 184, 1961–1962 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841961b0
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