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An electric eel has multiple cells along its body that create a change in potential of over 500 volts. The typical current produced in an electric eel attack is around 1 amp.
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500 volts would be the same potential as about 330 D-cell batteries connected together. A typical two-battery flashlight might use a current of about 1 amp. However, since the eel has a much larger potential difference, the effects can be severe.
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“Although there are few documented instances of people dying from an electric eel's shock, it could happen. A single jolt could incapacitate a person long enough to cause him or her to drown, even in shallow water. Multiple shocks could cause a person to stop breathing or go into heart failure,” according to How Stuff Works.
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Electric eels use this ability not just to hunt but also to deter attackers. The fish have delivered shocks so powerful they've killed horses, and there's even video of one shocking the daylights out of a caiman (warning for those who are sensitive):
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Electric eels will leap from the water to attack [bold in original]
As if all this information about how powerful and clever electric eels are isn't unnerving enough, a new study shows they will actually leap from the water to attack predators. That’s right, they don’t just stay put under the surface.
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originally posted by: BO XIAN
www.mnn.com...
. . . video of one shocking the daylights out of a caiman
That last video of the eel lighting up the gator head is rather incredible
originally posted by: Vector99
a reply to: BO XIAN
I've always had a strange curiosity about electric eels. If you aren't grounded can they still shock you?
originally posted by: pryingopen3rdeye
originally posted by: Vector99
a reply to: BO XIAN
I've always had a strange curiosity about electric eels. If you aren't grounded can they still shock you?
how would you not be grounded? you got wings you can float in mid air?
think of them like a battery, they have a positive end at their head negative at their rear they shock you from their head and the electricity does what it can to find its way to the eels tail end which if the eels head is touching you means it passes through you first.