Sentences with phrase «with electric eels»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

Using electrical measurements he collected during the eel attacks, Catania came up with an equation to estimate the amount of electric current flowing from the eel into his arm.

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.

Extrapolating from his experience with a small eel, Catania estimates that a human struck on the trunk by a larger, 1.8 - meter - long electric eel might endure a current of 0.24 amperes, or 63 watts of power.

An electric eel jumps out of the water to attack a plastic alligator head outfitted with LEDs.

In an effort to create a power source for future implantable technologies, a team led by Michael Mayer from the University of Fribourg, along with researchers from the University of Michigan and UC San Diego, developed an electric eel - inspired device that produced 110 volts from gels filled with water, called hydrogels.

So I was moving electric eels to experimental chambers with a net that had a metal rim and a metal handle.

So we had frequent 60 second science podcast contributor Cynthia Graber get in touch with Catania to find out about these fantastical battles between electric eels and horses.

Catania placed his arm in a tank with a 40 - centimeter - long electric eel (relatively small as eels go) and...

The ability of electric eels to shock their prey with a 600 - volt blast is well known, but exactly how the fish orchestrate their attacks has remained a question as murky as the waters they hunt in.

The filmmaker has no problem writing electric dialogue in the new «Fahrenheit,» and the visuals are filled with understated detail, with the firemen living in plush homes turned cold by weak fluorescent lighting, and the ghettos of the book - loving eels warmed as if by candlelight.

This is a great spot for a night dive as the shallow area is frequented by electric blue - spotted stingrays mingling with moray eels, and bamboo and cat sharks.

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.

This turnaround features a pair of attacking electric eels armed with a shield of voltage and a spiked hazard.