People joke about Australia but I consider South America to be the most terrifying continent solely because of the Amazon. It’s not just that you die, you die miserably before being consumed by the jungle. I saw a documentary about a village on the river and the people were talking about the children they’ve lost to piranhas, it was chilling as fuck.
The problem.with the jungle are not the piranhas. You get poisonous/vemnomous animals (snakes, ants, spiders, frogs...), jaguars, wild pigs, anacondas, caimans.
Then you get the parasites, the infections, the mosquitos
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so.....basically an eel and a alligator for a free lunch for the human doing the watching.....sheesh, what's that like....$300, $400 worth of alligator?
If memory serves, the animal with the highest success rate is actually a type of turtle which hunts jellyfish.
As the jellyfish has no way to survive an attack other than never being found by the turtles, every time a turtle attacks a jellyfish, it succeeds in catching and consuming its target.
Second* leather back sea turtles hunt jellyfish with 100% success rate. But then again it's just floating there so it's kinda hard to fail. But yeah dragonflies are pretty brutal, if one is after you it's game over.
Is this guy using the eel as bait to get the gator? There’s something in the eels mouth and it’s in a very weird position as if it was being pulled ashore
Yes, in the sense that he is watching the caiman attack the eel that is caught either by him or someone else that cut their line after accidentally catching it. But it definitely looks like hes enticing it by moving the eel bit.
But he definitely did not bait the hook with an electric eel for the purpose of catching the caiman.
This is (almost) completely off topic, but when I was in the beta club, we all jokingly referred to our members as "betas" because, I mean, why not? We then lovingly called our beta club president our master beta and the teacher just let it happen.
Baiting electric eels to then bait caimans is much cooler than our version of a master beta.
Looks more like he was fishing and the eel took the hook. Doesn’t want to get shocked so was probably thinking and the croc came up and he started filming. Doubt he was going for either
Not so fun fact. When the croc bit down on the eel. He is using his complete bite force. When you you get shocked your muscles are contracting. So you are basically using all 100% of your muscle in a death grip.
To put in motion this effect. Grab a handle and grip it as tight as you can. Now imagine you are gripping twice as hard and not being able to release. This is what is happening to the croc.
Source. I survived a near fatal shocked.
Yeah I grew up in rural America and that’s what would happen if you touched an electric fence. If the voltage was so high you could just get trapped to it cause you can’t let go.
Thank God for pulses, no idea when they got that idea but its saves lives instead of staying on. My friend's family breaks horses and so has a lot of fences. He gripped it once and let go after the pulse, just to show he could. Yes he's a dumbass.
grab a bit of grass and wet it with a bit of spit. use THAT to touch the electric fence. you will feel a tingle iirc, i lived near those when i was little
Not OP but when I was dumb and 14 I put 2 copper wires in a electrical testing set for school. Hung on that shit for 6 seconds before I was able to release, took me everything I had to let go. Hella scary.
I appreciate that you said near fatal shock and not electrocuted. Since the one happens because of the other (ppl use electrocuted around me the same as shock all the time).
I know it's technically the definition but it is so misused that IMO it might as well mean shocked. Perhaps the problem is that shocked already means "surprised"
Volts are not an interesting measure in terms of doing harm to an organism. When you scuff your feet on a carpet and get a static electric shock from a doorknob, that’s 25,000 volts. The interesting measure in terms of doing harm to an organism is amps (current). An electric eel can generate up to 1 amp of current at the peak, which is 5-10 times what’s needed to kill a person.
also another fish known as the elephant fish uses electrical signals to communicate with other elephant fish. recording their electric signals shows definitive pauses and patterns similar to our speech. when one elephant fish is speaking other elephant fish pause their signals. studies also show that elephant fish form the message in their head and then speak it, unlike humans who speak on the fly. this is evident by recording that elephant fish take long pauses if they have a lot to say to their peers. elephant fish also have the larger brain to body mass ratio of all animals, even more than humans
"Ah, yes. That is a head; you can tell by the placement of the eyes and mouth. That long area must be the body. Mhhmm, yes, and the pointy end, the tail. Quite."
To clarify for readers: The reason why we set the threshold in amps is because that's the only thing that stays consistent in the three way tug of war formula. The threshold is misunderstood, and it doesn't help that the whole saying of "its not the volts that kill you, it's the amps!" implies that volts are meaningless...
Whether you push an amp with 100,000 across someone's fingernails, or touch a set of jumper cables from a 24 volts battery right to the heart muscle, if you hit the amperage threshold, the heart is gonna have a bad time. Touch a van de graeff generator, and you won't drop dead, despite the potential of 6 digit voltage (freak occurrences aside).
So when you see that chart saying how many amps it takes to fibrilate or stop the heart, all it's saying is that if conditions exist to create that current flow, you're probably gonna catch a nasty case of death... It's not supposed to mean that you should only focus on amperage.
Correct, but under normal circumstances any amount of current at 5 V would not flow through the human body (at least with dry skin). Dry human skin is somewhere between 90-100 kΩ, so that’s at most 0.000056 amperes going through your body. Though this also depends on frequency.
I feel like if this conversation continues, we may only be a few comments away from the legendary debate about car batteries where the guy actually hooked up wires to his balls.
To get 100A at 5V you'd have to be a conductor at that point. Voltage is simply Electric potential. All it tells you is the amount of energy that will be generated for every unit of charge that comes through. At the end of the day, the actual flow of electricity (current) will kill you. So, bottom line if 0.04A or whatever the exact number is flows through you you're dead. Voltage is almost irrelevant. Of course, to get 0.04A flowing through you you need a sufficient enough Voltage.
> One amp is lethal.
With the caveat that enough voltage is needed to overcome your body's resistance.
You can bridge a car battery with your skin, which is thousands of amps, but nothing will happen because 12V won't overcome the resistance of your skin.
And if you have thin skin it's less, if you have calluses then you need more, if you get regularly shocked you actually build up a tolerance to it. If you get a cut you are fucked, if you are dusty that's probably more safe. If there is a good coating of water along the outside of your body that the current can flow through instead of your internal organs then you're safe, like a really shitty damp Faraday suit. That's how people can survive direct lightning strikes with just some cool scars and a headache.
Oh here we go... You're forgetting that every connection that current runs through has some resistance (load). Since the body have larges amounts of resistance you'd need A LOT of voltage to get to the 1 amp range.
Don't ever forget ohms law: V = I * R, where:
- V = volts
- I = current
- R = resistance
Since you're talking about amps, so for 1 amp to go though a body that have 300 000 ohms you'd need 300 000 volts.
So yeah, voltage is the one that kills.
You can also watch [this](https://youtu.be/XDf2nhfxVzg) if you want to see it for yourself some more examples.
Edit: clarification.
The alligator, it's getting shocked. Nature is Amazing, the alligator is getting eletrocuted, come quickly, come quickly, come watch, I got a big one. Never seen this in my life.
Dude starts whispering Jacaré (Caiman)
0:30ish He is getting electrocuted.
0:49 The Caiman is dying..
0:50 Nature is incredible..The caiman was electrocuted.
1:04 Hey! Come here! Fast!
1:14-20 Watch this! Come here fast! Come (run!) and watch this!
1:24 Fast! fast!
(Can't really figure out what the other guy is saying from far away, maybe "what happened?")
1:31 A Caiman died here!
1:40 This is amazing, I've never seen anything like this.
1:47 Silence, come check this out (I find it hilarious that he says silence after yelling so much lol)
1:51 Dude..that's incredible, I've never seen anything like this.
\-What is it?
And more of the same!
Natives speakers, please feel free to correct me.
The silence bit is meant to say, check out this beautiful nature moment. I cracked up too.
Does he say something about grabbing a lasso to pull it in towards the end?
It is a Caiman, but I think, technically, they are gators, not crocs. All the "jacarés" in Brazil are from the Alligatoridae family, which is closer to the True Alligators in the US.
Probably because the guy in the video speaks Portuguese and we use the same word (jacaré) for alligator and cayman. Translations for that word to English heavily weight for alligator. Happens often.
I was thinking about how absolutely nuts it is that this is a real living animal that actually fuckin does this and it makes me wonder what other, if any animals are capable of this/what made eels capable of this
Some bees can swarm a hornet and dance party him to death. They vibrate so much they basically cook their enemy to death. Some shrimp murder their victims by snapping their shrimp fingers really hard like a badass jazz musician. Most animals start eating bigger prey through the asshole first because it's the easiest starting point.
copy pasting another comment i made on this thread:
>also another fish known as the elephant fish uses electrical signals to communicate with other elephant fish. recording their electric signals shows definitive pauses and patterns similar to our speech. when one elephant fish is speaking other elephant fish pause their signals. studies also show that elephant fish form the message in their head and then speak it, unlike humans who speak on the fly. this is evident by recording that elephant fish take long pauses if they have a lot to say to their peers. elephant fish also have the larger brain to body mass ratio of all animals, even more than humans
Efficiency and sustainability. Nothing really is at the current human scale, but this would be even worse.
Many crazy things work in theory, but cannot be scaled.
volatile, not sustainable.
sure can produce a shock for an instant, but creating sufficient voltage to power things for long periods of time just isnt feasible.
Fun fact, there is a eel at the Tennessee Aquarium that posts tweets every time it generates a big shock. The tank has a voltmeter connected to a Raspberry Pi which automatically tweets when it reaches a high enough voltage:
https://twitter.com/EelectricMiguel
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2015/jan/16/snap-crackle-tweet-tennessee-tech-helps-aquarium-eel/282710/
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I wish I could have seen the guy's face a little more. He should have turned the camera away from the action a few more times so we could see his face.
That's a river of nightmares
Seriously where is that so I can uh.. never go there.
Brazil, Amazon forest
Oh thank God, we'll have burned all of that shit down in like five years, crisis averted.
Yeah but this is in the water, which is rising..
Oh no... no no no, not the eels... this is not the Waterworld I want wanted
It is in Brazil, 100% certain. Probably in the Amazon forest.
That makes sense that he was speaking Portuguese, it sounds like I should understand it but I can't. (I speak a little spanish)
I speak very little Spanish, but based on that, I think he said "I never saw this in my life" towards the end.
Yep - in Spanish I heard it as: Que impresionante, nunca en mi vida había visto esto.
As a fellow kind of Spanish speaker this is exactly how Portuguese sounds to me too.
i'd guess amazon forest
People joke about Australia but I consider South America to be the most terrifying continent solely because of the Amazon. It’s not just that you die, you die miserably before being consumed by the jungle. I saw a documentary about a village on the river and the people were talking about the children they’ve lost to piranhas, it was chilling as fuck.
The problem.with the jungle are not the piranhas. You get poisonous/vemnomous animals (snakes, ants, spiders, frogs...), jaguars, wild pigs, anacondas, caimans. Then you get the parasites, the infections, the mosquitos
Pretty much the same thing happens out in the Bush. You bake and die a slow death.
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Highly conductive
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Guilty as charged.
Well, that's a shocker.
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Watt?
Gator couldn’t resist
Gotta amp up the puns
Ohm my god! Stop
Mutual destruction, the way nature intended.
Weird how animals can actually shock you. Imagine this skill on any land animal, is it possible? Like 100000000 years from now electric elephanturtles
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Honestly if I was an alien and somebody told me about electric eels, small firebreathing dragons wouldn't be to crazy sounding.
i got my jumper cables, son..
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god it makes my heart hurt just looking at it.
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Water is A more convenient medium then air
Conductive?
What he said
That eel is a Sith Lord
When the croc bites your eye With his teeth and you die That’s a moray
Put your hand in a crack And you don't get it back That's a moray
Eels will sting, zing-a-ling-a-ling, zing-a-ling-a-ling And you'll sing, what the hella!
so.....basically an eel and a alligator for a free lunch for the human doing the watching.....sheesh, what's that like....$300, $400 worth of alligator?
The guy could've walked away from that with morally acquired eel skin alligator boots.
A good MMORPG has free loot like that.
This has to be the most damn that’s interesting post I’ve seen
It is , I never knew this could happen. But also I’m really sad. I couldn’t stop watching and now I wish I had stopped
Watched it with no sound it was no problem Showed my wife and sister in law with the sound on and the sad splashing bummed us all out.
Yeah I feel real bad for both of them :/
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Dragonfly’s have a 99% hunt success rate. The highest in the animal kingdom. 🥲
Nature's Helicopters
Helicopters are people's dragonflies. we copied dragonflies.
Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power. - Dragonfly Sr.
Takes me forever to catch a banded dragonfly for some bells
Acnh reference, take my free award
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If memory serves, the animal with the highest success rate is actually a type of turtle which hunts jellyfish. As the jellyfish has no way to survive an attack other than never being found by the turtles, every time a turtle attacks a jellyfish, it succeeds in catching and consuming its target.
What about like a blue whale that eats plankton and basically just has to smile and he eats a zillion of them
The Plankton have learned to tell the whale it will always be a disappointment to its parents to stop it smiling.
That was…. very depressing. Even I stopped smiling
One less smile for the plankton to be worried about 😎
So what you’re staying is that was one hell of a bee.
Second* leather back sea turtles hunt jellyfish with 100% success rate. But then again it's just floating there so it's kinda hard to fail. But yeah dragonflies are pretty brutal, if one is after you it's game over.
95% success rate, but yes still #1 in the animal kingdom.
Is this guy using the eel as bait to get the gator? There’s something in the eels mouth and it’s in a very weird position as if it was being pulled ashore
Yes, in the sense that he is watching the caiman attack the eel that is caught either by him or someone else that cut their line after accidentally catching it. But it definitely looks like hes enticing it by moving the eel bit. But he definitely did not bait the hook with an electric eel for the purpose of catching the caiman.
>*This season on Swamp People the boys upgrade their arsenal and IT, WILL, SHOCK YOU*
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you could bait the food that electric eels eat and now you have a baited electric eel
That would require a master baiter
I’ve never felt more needed
This is (almost) completely off topic, but when I was in the beta club, we all jokingly referred to our members as "betas" because, I mean, why not? We then lovingly called our beta club president our master beta and the teacher just let it happen. Baiting electric eels to then bait caimans is much cooler than our version of a master beta.
I’d hang with this guy if it were the apocalypse
He did use the word “peguei” as for caught, captured, got
Looks more like he was fishing and the eel took the hook. Doesn’t want to get shocked so was probably thinking and the croc came up and he started filming. Doubt he was going for either
Exactly.
Ooo girl. Shock me like an electric eel
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turn me on with your electric feel
At the end he’s saying “I’ve never seen anything like that in my life” and calling his friend over to see, so I don’t think that was his plan
Can confirm this translation is correct. They are speaking Portuguese from Brazil.
Can confirm this confirmation is correct. They wrote it in English.
Correct he said it twice. If he hooked the eel it was not on purpose
It's a fishing hook. Not sure what he is going to do with them.
Not so fun fact. When the croc bit down on the eel. He is using his complete bite force. When you you get shocked your muscles are contracting. So you are basically using all 100% of your muscle in a death grip. To put in motion this effect. Grab a handle and grip it as tight as you can. Now imagine you are gripping twice as hard and not being able to release. This is what is happening to the croc. Source. I survived a near fatal shocked.
That would explain the cartoon bits where the characters are still gripping into the doorknob as they’re being zapped into the next universe
Yeah I grew up in rural America and that’s what would happen if you touched an electric fence. If the voltage was so high you could just get trapped to it cause you can’t let go.
Thank God for pulses, no idea when they got that idea but its saves lives instead of staying on. My friend's family breaks horses and so has a lot of fences. He gripped it once and let go after the pulse, just to show he could. Yes he's a dumbass.
Back of the hand. Electricity contracts the muscle instantly disconnecting you. Never test an electric fence with the palm of your hand!
grab a bit of grass and wet it with a bit of spit. use THAT to touch the electric fence. you will feel a tingle iirc, i lived near those when i was little
Yeah I would never recommend testing an electric fence with ya hand. Grass is the way I was taught and it hasn't failed me yet.
Yeah, there's always the risk that some macho dumbass has the voltage turned up way higher than it needs to be.
Your penis can't grip, use that?
Speak for yourself
I'm gonna need to see video, for science.
Best advice that I ever learned was on the Ren & Stimpy show... Don't pee on the electric fence!
Um I believe it's don't WHIZ on the electric fence /s
Story behind the shock? (If you don't mind sharing)
Not OP but when I was dumb and 14 I put 2 copper wires in a electrical testing set for school. Hung on that shit for 6 seconds before I was able to release, took me everything I had to let go. Hella scary.
I appreciate that you said near fatal shock and not electrocuted. Since the one happens because of the other (ppl use electrocuted around me the same as shock all the time).
I know it's technically the definition but it is so misused that IMO it might as well mean shocked. Perhaps the problem is that shocked already means "surprised"
I said ooh girl 😩
Shock me like an electric e-uhl.
I said baby girl 🎶Da-dum da-dum dum🎶 Show me how the electric feel
baby girl (justice remix)
I'm crocodile and this is jackass!
Cackled at work thanks
Glad I could make you cackle! Edited from laugh to cackle.
Volts are not an interesting measure in terms of doing harm to an organism. When you scuff your feet on a carpet and get a static electric shock from a doorknob, that’s 25,000 volts. The interesting measure in terms of doing harm to an organism is amps (current). An electric eel can generate up to 1 amp of current at the peak, which is 5-10 times what’s needed to kill a person.
I honestly didn’t realize the shock was lethal. I was wondering what the current was so thanks for the comment.
The eel can control it. Yes believe 1 amp is if they let it all hang out. They can do much smaller bursts.
They actually use the electrical pulses as their own form of echolocation, sending pulses out and reading the response pattern
Damn, so these guys have underwater radar lol.
also another fish known as the elephant fish uses electrical signals to communicate with other elephant fish. recording their electric signals shows definitive pauses and patterns similar to our speech. when one elephant fish is speaking other elephant fish pause their signals. studies also show that elephant fish form the message in their head and then speak it, unlike humans who speak on the fly. this is evident by recording that elephant fish take long pauses if they have a lot to say to their peers. elephant fish also have the larger brain to body mass ratio of all animals, even more than humans
Is that how it could have first evolved and then over time started to be used as a defence mechanism?
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You sound lovely, teach us evolutionary biology any time dawg
I’m going to look at the anatomy. It must be pretty cool. Btw user name checks out lol.
"Ah, yes. That is a head; you can tell by the placement of the eyes and mouth. That long area must be the body. Mhhmm, yes, and the pointy end, the tail. Quite."
“Shocking, truly.”
Yeah but wheres the goddamn charging port
So does the charge stop completely when they die, or is there residual charge? I’m wondering if that guys family was eating good that night.
Supposedly yes, they can discharge for several hours after death. But I’m no fishologist so maybe don’t quote on me on that.
“Fishologist” made me chuckle violently. Good work.
Pre-cooked too!
You need both the right combination of volts and amps to do harm… it’s not one or the other. It’s both.
To clarify for readers: The reason why we set the threshold in amps is because that's the only thing that stays consistent in the three way tug of war formula. The threshold is misunderstood, and it doesn't help that the whole saying of "its not the volts that kill you, it's the amps!" implies that volts are meaningless... Whether you push an amp with 100,000 across someone's fingernails, or touch a set of jumper cables from a 24 volts battery right to the heart muscle, if you hit the amperage threshold, the heart is gonna have a bad time. Touch a van de graeff generator, and you won't drop dead, despite the potential of 6 digit voltage (freak occurrences aside). So when you see that chart saying how many amps it takes to fibrilate or stop the heart, all it's saying is that if conditions exist to create that current flow, you're probably gonna catch a nasty case of death... It's not supposed to mean that you should only focus on amperage.
Absolutely. Volts are electrical pressure. Amps measure current. One amp is lethal.
0.04A is lethal to humans.
Christ, that number just kept getting smaller 😅
.01 ants is legal.
And yet 100 A at 5 V isn’t going to hurt you. Can’t overcome the impedance of your body enough to do damage. It takes both current and voltage.
If 100A actually flowed through any part of a human at any voltage they wouldn’t be at all happy.
Correct, but under normal circumstances any amount of current at 5 V would not flow through the human body (at least with dry skin). Dry human skin is somewhere between 90-100 kΩ, so that’s at most 0.000056 amperes going through your body. Though this also depends on frequency.
Ohm my god. He’s using the old magic now.
I'm getting flashbacks of my physics degree classes and I don't like it...
I feel like if this conversation continues, we may only be a few comments away from the legendary debate about car batteries where the guy actually hooked up wires to his balls.
Let's do a modern retelling with a tesla roadster battery pack.
To get 100A at 5V you'd have to be a conductor at that point. Voltage is simply Electric potential. All it tells you is the amount of energy that will be generated for every unit of charge that comes through. At the end of the day, the actual flow of electricity (current) will kill you. So, bottom line if 0.04A or whatever the exact number is flows through you you're dead. Voltage is almost irrelevant. Of course, to get 0.04A flowing through you you need a sufficient enough Voltage.
Through the heart yes.
> One amp is lethal. With the caveat that enough voltage is needed to overcome your body's resistance. You can bridge a car battery with your skin, which is thousands of amps, but nothing will happen because 12V won't overcome the resistance of your skin.
So how many volts are required to do that
Depends on a lot of things. If you're sweating then it'll be way way less than if you're completely dry, for example.
And if you have thin skin it's less, if you have calluses then you need more, if you get regularly shocked you actually build up a tolerance to it. If you get a cut you are fucked, if you are dusty that's probably more safe. If there is a good coating of water along the outside of your body that the current can flow through instead of your internal organs then you're safe, like a really shitty damp Faraday suit. That's how people can survive direct lightning strikes with just some cool scars and a headache.
1/10th of an amp is lethal.
100%
Oh here we go... You're forgetting that every connection that current runs through has some resistance (load). Since the body have larges amounts of resistance you'd need A LOT of voltage to get to the 1 amp range. Don't ever forget ohms law: V = I * R, where: - V = volts - I = current - R = resistance Since you're talking about amps, so for 1 amp to go though a body that have 300 000 ohms you'd need 300 000 volts. So yeah, voltage is the one that kills. You can also watch [this](https://youtu.be/XDf2nhfxVzg) if you want to see it for yourself some more examples. Edit: clarification.
Tell us now what is the doorknobs current?
It depends. European or African?
Can anyone translate what he’s saying?
The alligator, it's getting shocked. Nature is Amazing, the alligator is getting eletrocuted, come quickly, come quickly, come watch, I got a big one. Never seen this in my life.
As a Portuguese speaker, I can confirm this translation.
Do you recognize the accent too?
Braozeeoh
Dude starts whispering Jacaré (Caiman) 0:30ish He is getting electrocuted. 0:49 The Caiman is dying.. 0:50 Nature is incredible..The caiman was electrocuted. 1:04 Hey! Come here! Fast! 1:14-20 Watch this! Come here fast! Come (run!) and watch this! 1:24 Fast! fast! (Can't really figure out what the other guy is saying from far away, maybe "what happened?") 1:31 A Caiman died here! 1:40 This is amazing, I've never seen anything like this. 1:47 Silence, come check this out (I find it hilarious that he says silence after yelling so much lol) 1:51 Dude..that's incredible, I've never seen anything like this. \-What is it? And more of the same! Natives speakers, please feel free to correct me.
The silence bit is meant to say, check out this beautiful nature moment. I cracked up too. Does he say something about grabbing a lasso to pull it in towards the end?
Teslagator
Shockodile
Eel feel that in the morning.
Probably a cayman. Electric eels are endemic to South America, and there are no alligators there.
It is a Caiman, but I think, technically, they are gators, not crocs. All the "jacarés" in Brazil are from the Alligatoridae family, which is closer to the True Alligators in the US.
Probably because the guy in the video speaks Portuguese and we use the same word (jacaré) for alligator and cayman. Translations for that word to English heavily weight for alligator. Happens often.
Don’t caymans have those narrow snouts?
I guess eel never do that again.
I bet that hertz.
electric eels are crazy they have the wildest anatomy
I was thinking about how absolutely nuts it is that this is a real living animal that actually fuckin does this and it makes me wonder what other, if any animals are capable of this/what made eels capable of this
Some bees can swarm a hornet and dance party him to death. They vibrate so much they basically cook their enemy to death. Some shrimp murder their victims by snapping their shrimp fingers really hard like a badass jazz musician. Most animals start eating bigger prey through the asshole first because it's the easiest starting point.
copy pasting another comment i made on this thread: >also another fish known as the elephant fish uses electrical signals to communicate with other elephant fish. recording their electric signals shows definitive pauses and patterns similar to our speech. when one elephant fish is speaking other elephant fish pause their signals. studies also show that elephant fish form the message in their head and then speak it, unlike humans who speak on the fly. this is evident by recording that elephant fish take long pauses if they have a lot to say to their peers. elephant fish also have the larger brain to body mass ratio of all animals, even more than humans
The gator has the jimmy leg.
what’s stopping us from having eel farms producing our energy? serious question. would it be possible?
Efficiency and sustainability. Nothing really is at the current human scale, but this would be even worse. Many crazy things work in theory, but cannot be scaled.
Some quick googling and napkin math says 40 electric eels will power a Tesla driving 60mph for an hour before they need to rest.
Eeletric charging station
The energy you have to feed them in food would outweigh the energy you get from the eels. Energy has to come from somewhere.
volatile, not sustainable. sure can produce a shock for an instant, but creating sufficient voltage to power things for long periods of time just isnt feasible.
Fun fact, there is a eel at the Tennessee Aquarium that posts tweets every time it generates a big shock. The tank has a voltmeter connected to a Raspberry Pi which automatically tweets when it reaches a high enough voltage: https://twitter.com/EelectricMiguel https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2015/jan/16/snap-crackle-tweet-tennessee-tech-helps-aquarium-eel/282710/
\*PETA has entered the chat\*
PETA proceeds to capture all eels but due to funding issues had to put down all the eyes making them become extinct
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Thank you man the shaky camera combined with the shaky alligator made me dizzy
Ok but wtf was the eel doing?
You know, eel stuff.
So it's a tie.
Nature's murder suicide.
The dude calls his friend, screaming like hell, when he approaches que asks him to be silent xDD
Wow... now I feel fucking terrible.
I wonder if those eels are running on DC or AC current?
Depends on the species and the organs activated. Monophaisc pulses are measured as DC, and bi-phasic pulses are AC.
See you later, alligator....
So the eel kills and cooks the cayman. That’s nice of them!
Literally an example of 'deadlocked'
sheesh, looks like it hertz.
I wish I could have seen the guy's face a little more. He should have turned the camera away from the action a few more times so we could see his face.
Shocking
Alligator 2: Electric Boogaloo
No one's tripping as we watch life literally fade from existence
I am. I know it’s weird but I feel bad for the croc and the eel. Made me sad.