Let’s play a little game of Ripley’s Believe It or Not, I don’t care. An electric eel can emit 550 volts of electricity. Underwater creatures are believed to be the only animals on the planet capable of generating electricity, and the eel is certainly the most famous. But can the electricity generated by an electric eel really be harmful to humans? Yes indeed, yes: an eel standing in the human body in fish and cultivators to facilitate the consumption and digestion process.
Electric eels typically grow anywhere between four feet long and eight feet long. The electric eel is not a smooth and elegantly moving animal like its snake relative. But the eel moves its long pinna through the water quite awkwardly. Surprisingly enough, all the vital organs of an electric eel can be located on the front fifth of its body. The remaining four-fifths of the eel is delivered over the muscles and electrical power of its plant. Simply speaking, the eel has two small batteries and one much larger battery. Organs are essentially muscular in nature and are composed of units called electroplates. Seven columns of these electroplates are running through the body of the eel. Each of those columns contains thousands of cups. The electricity of the eel flows from the tail to the head in the position of these plates.
It is the cranial motor nerves that support the power of the eels’ electricity-generating organs. Those electroplates actually generate 15 millivolts each of which makes the electric shocks even more stunning, making these eels one of nature’s most amazing creatures. What I call the little machine can be found in the tail of an eel and it usually never works. As the eel waves through the water, this small battery emits a very low voltage wave that serves to create an electric field in the area around the eel. Once a shrimp or barracuda or scuba diver enters this electric field, the result is distortion. This distortion is sensed by the eel’s pits located on its head, which allows the eel to determine the size of objects within the electric field.
From what has been determined so far, the second minor battle acts in itself only to turn into a larger battle. And that larger powerful battery sends out shocks of electricity that stun a person and kill a potential meal. Not only is this electric shock powerful, but it’s also super fast. It emits an electric charge so quickly that by the time you notice the eel they are already repulsed by it.
Sources:
http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/Eels/ElectricEel.php
