Remote Controls

Electric eels are truly fascinating animals. They incapacitate prey using electricity. By producing up to 660-volts they shock their prey. Scientists have found that they are able to control their prey by producing this shock, which makes the fish they are targeting spasm involuntarily giving away it's location and preventing it from escaping. Electric eels aren't actually considered eels at all but instead are considered to be fish. They live in the muddy freshwater of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers of South America. They have very poor vision so, like a bat uses sonar to help find prey, electric eels send out low voltage pulses which they use as a sort of radar. They're one of several fish species that uses electrical pulses. 80% of their body is covered in cells that work as biological batteries. They also breath air, so they surface regularly.


"How Electric Eels 'Remote Control' Other Fish" by Verity Nye. December 5th 2014. LiveScience.

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