Sentences with phrase «eels leaping»

In the 1800s, renowned explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt observed a bizarre incident in the Amazon: he saw electric eels leaping into the air and shocking two horses.

Catania hooked meters that measure voltage and amperage to an aluminum plate and let the eels leap.

But one of the really interesting twists to this story is one of the most detailed images of this sort of encounter does show the eel leaping out of the water.

He has a front piece — this illustration — that was a really detailed illustration of Humboldt's story and it included this eel leaping out of the water.

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An electric eel zaps biologist Kenneth Catania with pulses of electricity during a leap attack in this slow - motion video.

Power transfer to a human during an electric eel's shocking leap.

Catania can not say, however, whether a leap attack from an electric eel is equally as shocking for all potential predators.

The fishermen led about 30 horses and mules into a muddy pond, where eels then leapt up, pressing themselves against the large mammals and delivering a mighty shock.

The higher a leap, the more voltage and amperage an eel produced.

And he's the author of a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled: «Leaping Eels Electrify Threats Supporting Von Humboldt's Account of a Battle with Horses.»

To figure out the forces behind this electrifying leap, Catania used a relatively small eel and a human subject — himself.

Electric eels trap pools with sinking platforms, giant dinosaurs stampede in pursuit of Crash as he leaps lava pools, and there's still the horribly tense Lights Out where platforms plummet from under your feet as you speed through each section before being plunged into darkness.