Name: An Eel To Never Feel | The Aquatic World With Philippe Cousteau, S2 EP 7
Uploaded: 2019-04-09T09:55:39.000Z
Duration: 2 min 28 s
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Our submarine is docked here, in the Amazon River.

- We could have gone to the Orinoco River

This is the only other place in the world

Electric eels are quite the peculiar species.

The majority of their body is made up of organs

which means they must surface every ten minutes or so

Scientists at Vanderbilt University, you know, hold on.

Bonjour Kenneth, so I hear your team has some interesting

- Yeah, we discovered something really remarkable

so when you threaten or corner an electric eel

it can leap out of the water and put its chin onto you

so that the current is sent straight through your body

and back down to the water giving maximal shock.

Now how do these eels generate all that electricity?

- Well, they have modified muscles that in the course

of evolution are now just used to generate electricity.

And they line these up in series to generate high voltages

- Thanks Kenneth, and say hi to the missus for me, okay.

These eels might be dangerous but once they shock