electric eels
Voltage-producing swimmers
Electric eels are freshwater fish native to South America that can generate powerful electrical discharges—up to 800 volts—to stun prey and deter predators.
Despite the name, they're not true eels but knifefish.
The term sometimes appears figuratively for anything unexpectedly shocking or energizing: That espresso hit me like an electric eel.
- high voltageDangerous electrical potential
- Amazon RiverBrazil's massive waterway
- knifefishElongated electric freshwater fish
- dischargesReleases or sends forth
- bioelectricityCurrent in living tissue
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- Bioelectricsbioelectricity, electrotherapy, action potential, depolarization, repolarization
- electroreceptionelectroreceptor, electroreceptors, knifefish
- fish and amphibiansfish, shark, sharks, salmon, cod
- water hazardsflash flood, river flood, coastal flooding, flooding, tsunami
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- igapoblackwater, seasonal flooding, aquatic plants, floating debris
electric eelsambush predators
Creatures that attack unexpectedly
filter feeders · baleen whales · whale sharks · parrotfish · bottom feeders
electric eelsambush predators
Creatures that attack unexpectedly
moray eels · anglerfish · barracuda · pike · whale sharks
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