A new battery made of fleshy hydrogel layers generates and stores power like
electric eels do.
With what's going on with
the electric eels doing this defensive behavior they can — you can sort of voluntarily attach them to a volt meter.
Not exact matches
Catania's work reveals that «what the
electric eel is
doing is taking the
electric ability that it has and using that to its absolute advantage in a very sophisticated, deliberate way,» he says.
«You wouldn't voluntarily
do it over and over again,» said Kenneth Catania, a professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and author of a new study about the
electric eels» shocking behavior.
Catania: This study is the fourth study that I've been
doing on
electric eels.
I mean
electric eels just in my experience
do not jump out of the water.
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does an
electric eel generate electricity without frying itself?