Sentences with phrase «studied electric eels»
Certainly a number of people who had studied electric eels had said this seems exaggerated or this seems crazy.
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The way electric eels have been described by biologists in the past has been fairly primitive, says Jason Gallant, a biologist who heads the Michigan State University Electric Fish Lab in East Lansing who was not involved in thelectric eels have been described by biologists in the past has been fairly primitive, says Jason Gallant, a biologist who heads the Michigan State University Electric Fish Lab in East Lansing who was not involved in thElectric Fish Lab in East Lansing who was not involved in the study.
This is Catania's latest study in a body of research analyzing the intricacies of an electric eel's behavior.
By bringing its tail around toward its head, an electric eel can double the strength of the electric pulse it sends out into the water, allowing it to demobilize larger prey items, the study found.
«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.
He said he hopes his new study might get other researchers wondering just what the electric eel is capable of hunting in the wild.
Catania: This study is the fourth study that I've been doing on electric eels.
But Humbolt was vindicated last year, when Catania published a study showing that electric eels indeed jump in the air to jolt potential predators.