Electric Eel Hunting
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Electric Eel Hunting
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Toni Ann
12/8/2014 08:35:39 am
I think it is crazy that knowledge of these eels can date back to decades ago, yet research is still being done to utilize the shocks and voltage. It is crazy how we know so much more like how we know an eels' electric pulse is almost 20x stronger than the average taser. From batteries to treating epilepsy the eels have taught science a great deal.
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Jordyn
12/8/2014 10:17:01 am
I think that it is amazing that an eel can locate its prey and capacitance its prey using electricity.Also never knew and have sometimes wondered what fave the idea the battery i never would have guessed it was based off of an eel.
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ryan brown
12/9/2014 01:15:14 am
I find it really cool that a eel can capture and electrocute their prey. Eels helped advance science and technology by their very strong shock by helping create batteries and treating epilepsy.
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Keshawn Williams
12/10/2014 09:34:07 am
I find it amazing that the eel is more complex and threatening than I previously thought. Of course I knew the eel could produce electricity for certain uses, but not like this. To find out that an eel can control the level of electricity it can emit depending on the action it's about to make as well as the distance of the pray is astounding. This article really spiked my interest in learning more about the eel, and I can wait to research the study on them to learn a couple more things about this outstanding animal.
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Eric N
12/10/2014 09:34:11 am
One of the many things that stood out to me when reading through the article was the biologists amazement after analyzing all of the intricate things that the electric eel can do. It is, in all actuality true. The eel has an amazing design that allows it to paralyze its preys movement. Very few animals aside from the eel possess this remarkable trait. How anyone could argue that this ability happened by chance over a long period of time is ludacris.
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Halie Palmer
12/10/2014 10:56:55 am
I found it quite compelling learning that a Professor of Biological Sciences Kenneth Catania had a hypothesis about how the eel's electroshock system actually worked. Catania figured out that the eels' electrical jolt was familiar with how a Taser works. He was struck by the similarity between the eel's volley and a Taser discharge. A Taser delivers 19 high-voltage pulses per second while the electric eel produces 400 pulses per second.
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Erin Crosby
12/10/2014 11:09:31 am
It amazes me how animals possess these traits that benefit them so enormously. I love that they adapt. It's very interesting that because eels can't see at night they send out a shock to make the nearby marine animals move around and make noise. This then allows the eel to locate the fish and feed on the prey.
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Bobby Hampton
12/10/2014 01:56:59 pm
The electric eel is an amazing way for the eels to get their food and track down their prey. It is fairly easy because they just need to get within appropriate distance and deliver the shock and their prey is paralyzed and easy to be eaten. The eel is very smart and can locate the prey easily by sending a shock creating the fish to twitch that ultimately gives up its location and ready to be eaten by the eel.
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Victoria Velez
12/11/2014 08:32:43 am
It is amazing how eels have the natural born ability do produce electric energy and that science has been able to use that ability to make advances in medicine and technology. Not only is their ability to create this electric shock beneficial to man but it also beneficial to the animal themselves because it helps them to track down and kill their prey.
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Briana Brandao
12/11/2014 09:08:31 am
There is a lot of positive things that come from the electric eel and its capability to use its electricity for many things. It not only uses it in its daily life for getting their prey, but that they can also be used for things like batteries and treating epilepsy. It's remarkable how we can find different ways, like using an electric eel, to do things.
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Eric Rafaraci
12/11/2014 10:21:35 am
The electric eel is such a majestic sea animal with such an insane ability. Electric eels can immobilize a creature in three to four milliseconds. That alone is insane. But if the eel does not capture its prey fast enough, it will have the ability to swim away.
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Emily Speranza
12/11/2014 11:12:21 am
Its cool how animals have these traits that help them so much. It's interesting how the eels use their other senses to find food and prey, since they have trouble seeing. It's amazing to see how they adapt and how they are able to send out shocks to get a reaction from other animals. This process scares the other animals, allowing the eels to get food. I think this makes eels very smart and shows that even though they don't have sense of sight, they can still get food and survive.
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Jordan McKnight
12/11/2014 07:48:32 pm
The fact that an eel can produce such a strong electric charge amazes me. It can send out electric charge to find prey and that is a major advantage. An eel has to be one of the most self protected fish in the ocean. No other fish could even compete with an eel.
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Amanda Benbow
12/11/2014 08:36:42 pm
i think it is very interesting that there has been research on electric eels since the Egyptian times. Electric eels use their shock to trap prey and do other things that would help them survive.
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Chelsea Doherty
12/11/2014 09:12:07 pm
I would have never guessed that an eel could have such a high voltage of electricity. It is so fascinating that they can be used to charge a battery and help epilepsy. They can protect themselves so well and easily capture their prey.
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Evan McPolin
12/12/2014 05:14:53 am
I think it amazing how they have electricity. I wonder if we ever tried capturing eels and using the electricity in them and transfer it over to use it as energy. It like they have there own superpower. Eels can do some damage very quickly. It fascinating the an eel only 6 foot long eel can hold about 600 volts of electricity.
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James Courtney
12/12/2014 10:55:14 am
It is not only intriguing to me that the eel holds electrical capabilities, the fact that the eel works in milliseconds to capture its prey is what truly amazes me. These milliseconds are detrimental to the life of the prey and will soon cost them their livelihood. The eels remarkable electrical capabilities make it a higher level threat to the ocean and a a feared member of the sea.
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