A study has found that an electric eel’s discharge is strong enough to transfer genetic material from the environment into the cells of nearby animals. The finding suggests that electric eels ...

Smithsonian. (2019, September 10). Electric eel produces highest voltage discharge of any known animal. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 09 ...

One of the new species can discharge up to 860 volts, the strongest of any known animal. Electric eels are naked-back knifefishes (Gymnotidae) and are more closely related to catfish and carp than ...

The electric eel generates its electrical discharge using special cells known as electrolytes. The eels are teeming with these cells, each of which generates a small amount of voltage by ...

An electric eel can discharge 860 volts in a shock, which is apparently enough to open pores in the cell membranes of fish larvae and invite in new genes. The process, ...

Electric eels can discharge up to 860 volts – ouch. Image credit: SNAPSY/Shutterstock.com. DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION. Pain might be the first thing you associate with a shock from an electric eel ...

The large eel, which can grow up to 2.5m in size is, after all, able to discharge electricity from the most unlikely-looking ...

Typically, eels generate around 600 volts of electricity, but a discharge of 860 volts was recorded from one study, both of ...

That’s how much power an electric eel can produce. It’s hard to believe that any. ... The electrical discharge from Electrophorus varii has been measured as high as 572 volts.

Electric eels are able to leap partially out of the water and press themself against a predator. “Electric eels can leap out of the water and attach the most positively charged part of their body – ...

An electric eel can deliver a discharge merely by touching a victim, whether it be a prey animal being subdued, a would-be predator or some other threat being dispatched.