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Shocking Discovery!

Audie

Veteran Member
This is cool on so many levels. How can an animal produce such voltage (or any voltage, for that matter)? Is it inductive? Is it AC? DC? Something entirely different? But one misconception, 1 amp is more than enough to kill a person at that voltage.

Show me a animal what dont produce no voltage
and I will show you one what is dead.
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
It suggests a new variable to help with categorizing species. They had to use voltage levels to differentiate this eel species from others, but you could measure the electric voltages of all species to see if they differ widely just like you could measure its oxygen requirements, its speed or mass.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
This is cool on so many levels. How can an animal produce such voltage (or any voltage, for that matter)? Is it inductive? Is it AC? DC?
Were it AC, I'd be really impressed.
But the generating cells are DC.
Something entirely different? But one misconception, 1 amp is more than enough to kill a person at that voltage.
I thought so too.
There's more to the story here.
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
Found this in the news.
Just plain cool....
Most powerful electric eel ever discovered by scientists
860V....dang!

I thought this part was interesting, where it mentions how these eels hunt in packs.

The research team also learned more about the social characteristics of the animals. Electric eels had previously been thought of as solitary creatures, stalking prey on their own under cover of darkness.

They reported that the eels had been observed working together to coordinate their predatory manoeuvres, almost like lions on a hunt, but lions armed with electricity.

“This social behaviour is quite unusual,” Professor Menzes said. “They come together in a school, surround the fish they feed on, release electricity and kill it.”

So, they cook their food before eating it.

They also said that the shock from an electric eel is not typically enough to kill humans, though. Not that there's much chance of me running into an electric eel. I'd be more worried about electrical bananas.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I thought this part was interesting, where it mentions how these eels hunt in packs.



So, they cook their food before eating it.

They also said that the shock from an electric eel is not typically enough to kill humans, though. Not that there's much chance of me running into an electric eel. I'd be more worried about electrical bananas.
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