Pupils at a Wombwell school have been rearing some unlikely pets in class - a tank of baby eels.
St Michael and All Angels children have been looking after about 100 elvers ahead of them being released by the children into the wild at the Old Moor wetlands centre on July 8.
Eels live and grow in British rivers and wetlands for more than 15 years before travelling to the Sargasso Sea in the middle of the North Atlantic to breed.
They are an important part of the food chain and, although once plentiful, numbers in the UK have declined by as much as 95 per cent since the 1980s.
About 50,000 eels were released into the Old Moor by the Don Catchment Rivers trust in 2010 and more are expected to be released this year.
