How do lamprey climb? 🧗 With their mouth! Lamprey, or piharau/kanakana, don’t just use their toothy mouth for feeding, they also use it to travel upstream to breed. 👄 Adult lamprey migrate upstream in search of the perfect spawning site, using their suckermouth to climb over rocks and waterfalls. Of the over 44 lamprey species worldwide, only two are known to climb waterfalls with their body completely out of water and our native piharau is one of them. It’s thought that they use their extreme

Sea lamprey surveys ongoing around Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Sea lamprey on the rise in the Great Lakes

Lamprey - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Sea Lamprey Control in the Lake Champlain Basin | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

'Vampires of the Great Lakes': Sea lamprey control efforts underway in West Michigan rivers this weekend