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 the study.
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.
The
electric eel generates large
electric currents by
way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a specialized
electric organ.