Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Can this species now be added to the living side of the ledger

‘I was scared’: Most powerful electric eel ever discovered by scientists

Packs of animals living in Amazon ‘work together to surround fish’ before electrocuting and eating them


A previously undiscovered species of electric eel which delivers a shock with more than three times the voltage of a domestic plug socket has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest.
The enormous 2.5 metre eel has been named the Electrophorus voltaiafter Alessandro Volta, the Italian physicist who invented the battery. 
The animal, a type of knifefish, can discharge an electric shock reaching as high as 860 volts, the most powerful of any animal known to science.
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