How much of a shock can an electric eel deliver? A scientist just found out first-hand

Mongabay
Sep 27, 2017, 5:35 pm281 pts
Last year, Kenneth Catania, a professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, was able to corroborate a centuries-old story about electric eels leaping out of the water to shock would-be assailants. Prussian naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt was the first to document the…

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