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The recent work of Professor Ken Catania unveils the sophisticated ways in which electric eels use high voltage pulses. In a circumstance where it struggles with large or poorly-held prey - like the large eel capturing the crayfish in the video - they curl to sandwich the prey between the two poles of their powerful electric organ. This greatly increases the power of the electric discharge, which repeated at high frequency tires out the muscles of the prey. This allows the eel to manipulate prey that might otherwise escape. The video shows the electric eel curling for a long series of electric shocks before releasing and swallowing its prey.

Video 漏 Professor Ken Catania