This process is highly controlled, and eels can regulate the strength and duration of their shocks. The Shock of the Hunt Electric eels primarily use their electrical abilities to hunt for food.

An curved arrow pointing right. Vanderbilt University researchers confirmed a 200 year-old story that electric eels can shock a horse to death just by jumping out of water. The higher the eel ...

Electric eels are remarkable, snake-like fish with the power to deliver electric shocks to defend themselves, hunt, navigate and even communicate with one another. But how does their amazing ability ...

However, that is just what the eel can cause with this signal," Catania said. Putting together the fact that the eels are extremely sensitive to water movements with the fact that the whole-body ...