When it comes to electric eels, everyone may be familiar with them. Electric eels are less like creatures on Earth because they can emit high-voltage currents that can directly corona a cow. National Geographic magazine named the electric eel one of the "most feared freshwater animals on earth."
Recently, researchers have discovered two new varieties of electric eels in the Amazon basin, and there is a species called "volt electric eel", which can output up to 860 volts, much higher than the previous record of 650 volts. What is the concept of 860 volts? It is higher than the current standard of high-voltage electricity of human beings, and it can be called the strongest "biological generator".
Why can electric eels discharge? It is a miracle that electric eels can generate high voltage currents with their own body tissues. In fact, the invention of batteries by humans was also inspired by electric eels, and the Italian scientist Alessandro Volta made the first synthetic battery in human history in 1799, relying on the discharge principle of electric eels. Some people even say that electric eels are biological generators made by the extinct intelligent creatures of the earth.
Scientists have found that more than 80% of the muscle tissue of electric eels can be discharged, and the entire body contains thousands of discharge bodies. The head of the electric eel is the negative pole and the tail is the positive pole, which is simply not like the body structure that the creatures themselves would evolve.
Electric eels live underwater, and it is also a miracle that they emit high-voltage electricity to ensure that they are not electrified by their own living counterparts. In addition, electric eels can even use electricity to remotely control their prey, and their bodies lose control and paralyze, which is also of great interest to scientists. Every time the electric eel discharges, it is actually electric itself, but the electric eel seems to be immune to high-voltage electricity for a long time.
Some good people have done experiments, whether it is to put the electric eel on land, or put it in salt water, or even wrapped in a metal mesh, exhausted any way, and has not been able to make the electric eel electricity to itself.
So, how do electric eels breed offspring? Will the other half be electrocuted?
In fact, scientists have found that electric eels are very rare in vitro breeding fish. After the female electric eel lays eggs, the male electric eel is fertilized again. It can be said that the creature of the electric eel is really artificial, perfect and frightening.