Electric Eels Use Remote Control on Prey (3 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Electric Eels Use Remote Control on Prey (3 of 5)

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This photograph shows an eel in mid-attack on a fish that has been immobilized by the high-voltage output. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 5 2014 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Catania at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, and colleagues was titled, "The shocking predatory strike of the electric eel."

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[Credit: Kenneth Catania]

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