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

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

image: 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." view more 

Credit: [Credit: Kenneth Catania]


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