Sentences with phrase «when electric eels»
The electric shock was strongest when the electric eel was farthest out of the water.
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GOTCHA When an electric eel's prey fights back, the eel can simply reposition its body to intensify the effect of its shocks.
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When eels stack thousands of the organ plates in a row, their bodies can produce much higher voltage electric fields.
Catania placed his arm in a tank with a 40 - centimeter - long electric eel (relatively small as eels go) and determined, in amperes, the electrical current that flowed into him when the eel struck.
But then Catania witnessed something odd while working with electric eels: When he reached into his eels» cage with a large net that had a metallic rim and handle (he was wearing gloves), the eels would attack the net.
When the eel curls up in this horseshoe shape, something similar happens — it produces a strong electric field.
When he's not training electric eels or organizing anacondas, Dowd is working to promote a project he helped found shortly after that Amazon expedition.
But Humbolt was vindicated last year, when Catania published a study showing that electric eels indeed jump in the air to jolt potential predators.
The nearly four - foot - long electric eel draws a crowd, particularly in December, when it causes the lights on a nearby Christmas tree to twinkle.
When Dillon accidentally falls into a tub of genetically engineered electric eels, he transforms in to Electro, who has the power to control electricity.
Things become even worse for OsCorp when Max Dillon, an electrical engineer, falls into a vat of electric eels.
Having said that, this diesel knocks away like a woodpecker quartet when cold, the running characteristics are still more electric eel than pussycat, and when pushed hard the voice becomes loud and croaky.
To put that in perspective, 110 volts is the equivalent the quick zap you get when you rub your stocking feet on a rug then touch someone; 600 volts is equivalent to voltage an electric eel produces, which can stop a heart.