A researcher reveals the shocking truth about electric eels
By
Mariah Quintanilla
2:14pm, September 14, 2017
TAKING ONE FOR SCIENCE This electric eel may be relatively small, but the pain from its shock is comparable to that from an electric fence, a researcher has learned.
Kenneth Catania knows just how much it hurts to be zapped by an electric eel. For the first time, the biologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville has measured the strength of a defensive electrical attack on a real-life potential predator — himself.
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