Researchers working in the Amazon filmed eels gathering in packs to herd prey, then stunning them with a synchronised electric shock. "It was really amazing - we thought these were solitary ...

However, their extraordinary power serves purposes beyond merely stunning prey. A team from Nagoya University in Japan investigated whether the electric discharges of these eels could replicate ...

"The shock stuns the victim. It's sufficiently strong to help the fish capture prey or scare off a predator," Santana said. In their research, the biologists discovered that electric eels are not ...

They work together to herd prey into a small space and issue coordinated electric shocks to stun their food items. In theory, if threatened, an electric eel could leap partway out of the water and ...

Attacking prey in a whip-like motion ... While scientists don’t know exactly how electric eels avoid shocking themselves, ...

These electrolytes are able to discharge power when the eel feels threatened or when it attacks a potential prey ... If a human gets a shock from an electric eel, it can lead to severe respiratory ...

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 ...

An animated video abstract describing newly discovered group-hunting behavior found in electric eels. A team of scientists describe this novel behavior in the Jan. 14 issue of the journal Ecology ...