An curved arrow pointing right. Vanderbilt University researchers confirmed a 200 year-old story that electric eels can shock a horse to death just by jumping out of water. The higher the eel ...

The biologist determined that the closely space doublets and triplets that the eel emits correspond to the electric signal that motor neurons send to muscles to produce an extremely rapid contraction.

The scientists have not been able to understand how the electric eel manages to generate electric shocks and not hurt themselves in the process. Also Read: Global superbug crisis: 40 million lives ...

This process is highly controlled, and eels can regulate the strength and duration of their shocks. The Shock of the Hunt Electric eels primarily use their electrical abilities to hunt for food.