The electric eel can generate a jolt of around 600 volts — several times the shock from a household socket — by stacking thousands of specialised cells together like tiny batteries, and rather than only zapping prey underwater, it has been filmed rearing up out of the water to press its chin directly against a larger attacker

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The number that anchors everything is about 600 volts. That is the peak discharge an electric eel can deliver, several times the roughly 120 volts of a North American wall socket. The figure is stranger than it looks: no single part of the eel produces anything close to that. The voltage is assembled, cell by [...] The post The electric eel can generate a jolt of around 600 volts — several times the shock from a household socket — by stacking thousands of specialised cells together like tiny batteries, and rather than only zapping prey underwater, it has been filmed rearing up out of the water to press its chin directly against a larger attacker appeared first on Space Daily .