Six-Foot Electric Eel | World's Deadliest

For the electric eel, getting a meal is all about shock value. This huge predator can blast prey with 500 volts of electricity - enough to stun a grown human.
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[@TheSithBlue]

Man I am high and I just can't get over the fact that electric eels exist

[@queenp355]

lol this comment made my day

[@Righteous_E]

Dude I just burned one , and read some thing about eels, now I’m deep into it and here I am watching videos. These are badass creatures

[@angelvelasco1966]

SAME IMFG

[@swagmoneyrecords]

same

[@sachinsinghe619]

😂😂

[@Piyestagram]

This is the closest thing to electric type pokemon we will ever have.

[@petergohan]

eelektross. xD

[@jeffry.haryanto]

Bruno Frazão electreel

[@JOnTHeMOnSoon]

Jeffry Haryanto Noo this is draginair remember? lol

[@ShadowLugia141]

JOnTHeMOnSoon No, it is either a Tynamo or Eelectric

[@voltio231988]

You'll need the master ball to catch it

[@pelicanswin]

Ladies in Gentlemen, this six foot eel resides in Lake Iain'tjumpingin, located in the country of hellnawfuckthat.

[@atririchards9566]

ladies IN gentleman ???

[@dankninja9434]

Atri Richards ;)

[@castlecat7913]

+Atri Richards In a world, where the roles are reversed....

[@EJAXK13]

Castle Cat coming this summer

[@milossteelm3]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@roymbogori4450]

Its amazing how the eel can produce so much electricity without itself not getting harmed

[@ohmyflippiningod]

It does actually shock itself

[@chrisconejo4880]

Alphall Productions funny i guess but idk not really in 2018 im sure the year you commented this on was a big laugh

[@NOU-iw3gb]

@Janice Griffin Ur mum does too

[@NIP28]

its like pikachu

[@holdencawffle626]

its called electrocyte neutrality. thats what eels have that saves them

[@BlackMagic678]

People are always wondering if there are aliens in this universe.....Forgetting the fact we have Fish that literally have superpowers

[@salwagorges3428]

Facts

[@taevue]

Electric eel + fish tank + car = Electric powered car

[@MrWalker1000]

+Y E N G K O N G V U E patent this. Tesla motors has nothing on this idea.

[@alexhunter2374]

+Mike Banks lol

[@maulanaodelia5193]

+Y E N G K O N G V U E wow we have a new einstein here!!

[@MustBeErik]

+Y E N G K O N G V U E This would never be an actual idea that gets put into production due to the ethical problems associated.

[@taevue]

You're wrong. You were a mistake.

[@descentmvm]

eel is 2 op pls nerf

[@server30000]

+descent they said they would nerf in next patch

[@alvinibera2977]

report fizz feeding tahm kench

[@ItsCreaidan]

All wildlife asteroid nerfs: Electric eel:No longer does electricity

[@arianators4071]

lethaldescent i feel you man report kennen

[@basoaci5469]

patch 2.1.1 decreased eels voltage damage by 55% , aoe adjusted to 3 target only. cooldown 1min 25sec - electric shock now only deals 30% damage based on elemental attack

[@phillyflash43]

Before electricity was understood, I wonder what 'civilized' people thought gave these fish the ability to stun/cause great pain without even touching

[@zxcbvnm90]

God. My money is on god. Of course, some 'civilized' people would still tell you god gave them this ability :P

[@avastsamble6860]

Zeus

[@LuckySmurf]

Avast Samble You idiot, it's clearly Thor.

[@aaronsamuel84]

It's not zeus nor thor... it's a super human.... mammal

[@dkzbeier]

pff your all wrong...it ofcause used steam back then duh...

[@hypermetalsonic]

This didn't live up to how I imagined it would be after years of cartoons.

[@bkjeong4302]

+hypermetalsonic You can't really see electricity.

[@Seven-bl1xk]

Everywhere

[@thanos5220]

+Bk Jeong lightening is a visible form of electricity

[@ZomgToastWtf]

+Bk Jeong You could at least see the camera bug out a bit during the shock. But I really did expect something a bit more visual.

[@martelanderson2689]

hypermetalsonic I fully agree.

[@sucktitles]

Since tazers are now illegal where I live, I'll just slap bad guys with an eel.

[@Infernalicon]

+SuckTitles well,if you can lift that 6feet Long eel as a weapon you probably dont Need a taser...

[@xtreme1002003]

Where do you live?

[@Kidz24]

+SuckTitles Euphemism?

[@alaso6555]

Alphall Production

[@castlecat7913]

+Infernalicon Giggity

[@solidamber]

Why the stupid sound and flashing effects, I thought it was supposed to be a serious documentary ...talk about dumbing down,

[@Prevordan]

It's because it's an American documentary

[@Joecer89]

i know i wanted to see the electricity from the eel not some stupid special effects

[@Jorday006]

Joel Cervantes -_-

[@chrismescudi6594]

ian gee I too hate the cheesy lame effects they do to the documentary. It's like the show is for complete dumbassess

[@lv7603]

I knew not to expect BBC Planet Earth quality but this is made worse by the effects.

[@matthewsteenburghen]

500 volts probably killed the little fish right on the spot.

[@Sniom]

Amps kill

[@AlexMercer77]

Simon Eliasson Volts/charge overcomes resistance. 999999999 amps alone doesn't do jackshit.

[@flanagamer]

Nope, they eat their prey live - it stuns them so they can’t swim away

[@TheTallMan50]

How the hell did these fish get electrified in the first place?

[@kamiyabritton5862]

TheTallMan35 righhhtt

[@castlecat7913]

Thor was practicing with his hammer in his room one day(lifting it up in front of the mirror, looking cool, etc.), when suddenly Loki slammed the door open! Thor was so surprised, he pointed his hammer at Loki and shot a lightning bolt right at him! Lucky Loki dodged the attack, sending the bolt flying to his fish tank instead. Thus, the electric eel came to be, and the birth of angsty Loki was born. All this, because Loki decided not to knock before telling Thor that it was dinnertime.

[@gavinghost3069]

Castle Cat You should become a storyteller or a script writer

[@castlecat7913]

+Gavin Ghost Oh, thank you 😁

[@ammarhussain2955]

Nature, bruh!

[@nabbitsyoutube8695]

How humans can mimic an electric eel: Rub your back on a plastic chair. Touch your friend.

[@evandersloan1690]

Who has a plastic chair

[@TrapoutDee]

@@evandersloan1690 schools

[@OfficeThug]

It has organs that function like chemical capacitors. The organs contain a large amount of electrolytes, all arranged in stacks of tissue layers (kind of like an onion). The electrolytes carry a charge, either positive or negative, and in order to "charge" the organs the eel will separate the positive and negative across the layers. When it needs to send out a jolt, ion channels in the layers of the organ open up allowing electrolytes to quickly flow and mix, which generates an electric field.

[@coreymillion5752]

Shocking! GET IT? Bcause they are ELECTRIC eels?

[@bonnielee7559]

HA HA :|

[@ethan6439]

You ruined it by telling us why but it doesn't matter...

[@aegystierone8505]

You gave me a jolt.

[@lorrainesmith6577]

I see what you did there.

[@bighillc08]

Corey Million Wa wa..

[@aidenpierce2]

0:52 That sound scared shit out of me!

[@LasagnaIsGood]

whats with the stupid sound effects

[@arachnidalience8614]

I'm not impressed until it charges my phone.

[@husnainali2050]

Arachnid alience yeh

[@vicedesmond8250]

Arachnid alience you might still have a chance

[@irfaanmohammed1438]

Lit

[@arshialvi7613]

It will not charge your phone but definitely break it into pieces

[@honorato27050]

do you think is possible to harvest energy from them? like farms of electric eels making energy for humans?

[@scelestus3048]

+Alberto Carrasco Nope, that's too inefficient.

[@florablueeu6898]

I was wondering the same thing

[@gilmourroberts5874]

The electricity would still have to go through the water until it reached the electrodes in the tank to take a wire somewhere, problem is (impure) water is a terrible conducter also the water i guess would heat up due to it having to "transport" the electricity but idk if it would get so hot for the eels to be uncomfortable also the eels need to habe a threat for them to discharge and i wouldn't like it having to live in fear in a tank for the rest of life

[@maxanderson3733]

@@gilmourroberts5874 Thanks for the well written right now answer

[@Fayn757]

😂😂😂

[@lt.goodtheacezeonpilot8767]

a real life pokemon!!

[@gromzomb]

OMG ITS LANTURN!

[@rusty7984]

Jennifer McAdam If an electric eel and a sea lamprey had a baby then you have electross

[@SlenderPhantom47]

How did the electric eel even come to be? How did an eel gain the ability to conduct electricity?

[@SlenderPhantom47]

@@toargueortonotargue I’m just wondering where God got the idea to create an animal that can conduct electricity

[@SlenderPhantom47]

@@toargueortonotargue wow! thank you very much for your wisdom and knowledge friend

[@snipercube815]

Fact: electric eels aren't actually eels, they're knife fish!

[@FranciscoSanchez-ul1nr]

The amazing animals God has created... wow :O

[@johnvonhorn2942]

Francisco Sanchez The amazing gods that animals have created ... snore

[@neanam]

Truly amazing...something he made I be like why you make that like ticks eeew

[@hatchhyjack]

indeed they are, my friend. indeed they are

[@hatchhyjack]

***** why would he be joking

[@phillycheesesteak6177]

+John von Horn what if god was simply everything?

[@ralbiruni]

Since forever, I was fascinated by the ability to produce strong electrical discharges of these fish

[@swyzzlestyx]

I remember in the 1970s, I think it was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, there was an episode where a caiman accidently went into a pool of electric eels thinking it was the apex predator. I honestly felt sorry for the caiman. It didn't stand a chance and died slowly due to its size.

[@lordmasterization]

I got a jolt and came to the shocking conclusion that these electric eels are beasts.

[@alyssarae5656]

lol nice.

[@toniownez]

+lordmasterization Ohm my god that's amazing.

[@lordmasterization]

Nordic Countries are the best Watt is?

[@lordshotgun7168]

@@lordmasterization oOHH

[@fsffda]

there are 716 know animal species that can produce electricity (thanks scishow!)

[@alanyates3382]

The most popular being Pikachu

[@anthonylong9067]

The other most popular is BLANKA!!!

[@hansenrobert5637]

100 ways to die in halo reach

[@TruthSurge]

Humans also produce electricity. Read up on the heart on wiki sometime.

[@WakeMeUpInVegas]

Alan Yates This is by far the best comment on this video yet.

[@weeirrdcat]

The eel looks so jolly =) also, wouldn't it suck to be an eel? if someone bites ya butt you wouldn't see who did it until you turned around

[@snapperjessen]

worse for a human, cos they never gets to see it

[@hardwiredtoselfdestruction3401]

The eel looks like my cousin leroy

[@prasadmajhi5559]

🌅 ବଡ଼ିଆ ମଜା ମାନେ ଶ‌ଇ ପ୍ରାକୃତିକ ଶୈନ୍ଦଯ୍ୟୋ ଆନନ୍ଦର ପାହାଡ଼ ଝରଣା ଜୀବ ଜଗତ 🌹

[@gustavlohse1111]

who the fuck record this close up

[@Tech_Gene]

This fish is older than Dinosaurs. So we can say that electricity is created by nature million of years ago. What if nature is super advanced alien ? I think humans will be wondering forever...

[@lordalienandi]

can you charge a car battery with it?

[@ac1273]

Super Mario 64 anyone??

[@snipercube815]

That game = my childhood

[@castlecat7913]

And Ty the Tasmanian Tiger

[@RU-zm7wj]

Ah. that's a kids game, this is reality.

[@dog-ey2li]

Well i guess you can say it had an "Shocking" Personality! XD

[@r-techzgaming3914]

Enough to stun a grown human? Bloodyhell....

[@r-techzgaming3914]

Sheesh, now that IS deadly

[@nilesdavid8410]

MC R-Techz electric eels are one of those animals where you look at it and think, "why?" i mean it doesnt need this overkill defense mechanism... its a slimy slippy elusive eel. not like anything is trying to eat it, but Noooo its has to go and evolve and develop an ability that is almost thunder conjuring magic. "get away from me river crab! ill reduce you to ash!"

[@bkjeong4302]

+MC R-Techz Enough to KILL a person. Even a grounded person.

[@bkjeong4302]

+Niles David Electric eels evolved electrogeneration as a means of navigation, using the electric field as a radar. Then they converted it into an overkill weapon.

[@Noinoi_]

+Niles David Nothing's trying to eat it BECAUSE it has the power of a lightning. It'd be a meal on a silver platter for alligators without it.

[@Nyarlathotep_Flagg]

Why do they always talk about volt, never about the watt, or even better, the amp. With low enough amounts of energy, volt doesn't really count for much, if the watt can't cover it.

[@Nobodyrocked]

If your talking about DC current, amp and power depend upon the voltage and the resistance of the target. A battery can only produce certain amount of voltage but can produce a wide range of amp.

[@richardb8157]

METALLICA FTW

[@Septiviumexe]

You guys are fucking idiots, stop trying to act like youre smart and go back to your video game

[@NelsonBigGunP200Fan]

think of it like this. Volts is the push. Amps is the grunt. Of course you could grab 1000v but depending on where is the deadly part. 300ma on your heat would stop it. I beileve on your hands it would take a bit more. Wet parts like your tounge, or mouth- not very much and you'd be crispy.

[@rayoki1]

A better explanation would be volts is the push, and amps depends on the circuit. It's like a bird on a power line. The voltage is still there, the current isn't unless the circuit is complete. Once the circuit is completes current is 100% dependent on the resistance in the circuit and the voltage pushing the current. Thus current=voltage divided by resistance.

[@angelic9889]

Thanks Amazon🙄 Add yourself to my list of places to never visit. You're right up there with Australia.

[@marctorres654]

i will pair with frying pan and oil

[@syedhassanraza2571]

Eel be like: Keep recording human! Make me famous, and i will spare your life 😏 - *Thug Life of Eel* 😎

[@MelvinArthurMurray]

Electric type Pokemon !!

[@iancunn99]

Eelektross is the electric eel Pokemon

[@TruthSurge]

500 v? is that AC or DC? and how many amps?

[@ChaoticDreamer88]

Since the current isn't tracing back, it's not Alternating Current and would be Direct Current like a battery. No idea how many amps though.

[@TruthSurge]

ChaoticDreamer88 Man, that's why I am not in lakes, rivers, oceans. hahah too dangerous.

[@Microtardz]

1 Amp for about 2ms. Probably not going to kill you. Wouldn't recommend trying though.

[@TruthSurge]

Microtardz I wouldn't try it.

[@NelsonBigGunP200Fan]

Microtardz wrong, it only takes 300ma to stop your heart. 500v at 1 amp would cook you good. Depending on where it got you. Your chest? yes. You';d be dead in a second.

[@KumaranMurugesan]

Why arent we farming this to produce electricity?

[@notfake2460]

500 v isn't too much and it'd be way to difficult and..... peta

[@bkjeong4302]

+Kumaran Murugesan Because you would exhaust the eels.

[@muskatDR]

Can we use these to power electric cars?

[@magnomliman8114]

muskatDR STFU.

[@ryanmatthewfrancisco5448]

Pokemon sinnoh league victors and the totally wild the global family series World's weirdest animal fight club World's deadliest monster bug wars untamed America ocean fight club Africa's deadliest Alaska's deadliest

[@AuzzyBoy100]

God has such a unique artistic mind!

[@JFShaggy]

Another electric fish, is the electric catfish (malapterarus electricus), which interestingly, is the only genus of catfish to not have a dorsal fin. I have one in my aquarium. Its awesome.

[@crazyydemetri]

Fascinating how cellular biology works! They are apex predators, so naturally this was an evolutionary adaptation. If humans developed this ability we could power our houses!

[@FlashManinSpace]

Sex would be.... electrifying..

[@AphitethLordOfLight]

We would be enslaved to power the dwellings and machinations of the richest people(s). Humans simply being capable of lifting/being used for pleasure has created a world of suffering. If we had this ability, we would be constrained almost from birth to provide energy for really sick organisms.

[@BlueNinjakoopa553]

If the electric eel lived in ocean water, could it kill everything living there? Since salt and other minerals in the ocean water are such good conductors of electricity...

[@lordshotgun7168]

it lives in rivers.

[@nicosb2810]

One of these appears on Mario 64' Jolly Roger Bay level :3

[@snipercube815]

THAT EEL GETS ME EVERY TIME

[@dennisedlin9965]

Nicolas Sepulveda that was just a regular eel not an electric eel

[@FindStoicism]

thats incredible, how do they generate the electric potential? And does the current flow into them or out of them?

[@philosophyfrog2653]

The current flow through the eel. Most of the electric eels’ organs are located in a very small region anterior to their tails. When they are charging up, they stiffen their body into a line segment to avoid the current passing through their heart. The electric eel generates large electric currents with the help of highly specialized nervous systems that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc-shaped, electricity-producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ. The nervous system does this through a command nucleus that decides when the electric organ will fire. When the command is given, a complex array of nerves makes sure that the thousands of cells activate all at the same time. Each electrogenic cell carries a negative charge of a little less than 100 millivolts on its outside compared to its inside. When the command signal arrives, the nerve terminal releases a minute puff of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter. This creates a transient path with low electrical resistance connecting the inside and the outside of one side of the cell. Thus, each cell behaves like a battery with the activated side carrying a negative charge and the opposite side a positive one.

[@PhaseDragonia]

have yet to see humans on World's Deadliest

[@tcmonkeycow]

Amazing spider man. I can't be the only one...

[@DeNihility]

Electric Eel > Catfish > Cat > Electric Cat? o-o

[@Jorday006]

Are you implying greater than ">" or equals to "=" ?

[@DeNihility]

Arrows

[@bkjeong4302]

+Cat We already have electric catfish.

[@DeNihility]

Eww liberals

[@CathaterW]

6 foot long? Can stun a human? That is absolutely fucking terrifying lol. Nature's taser

[@bkjeong4302]

+Kevin A It can KILL a human.

[@CathaterW]

Bk Jeong how dare u scare me i just got over this

[@AzleapyChannel]

I could not watch the whole thing because of the voice over - pathetic and ridiculous.

[@phantomxwriter]

Electro in eel form. Thumbs up if u were brought here from the amazing spiderman 2

[@fatelvis6924]

Omg its so ugly 😳

[@toastee5421]

You don't say...

[@GRaToMiC]

i once laid my finger unwillingly on a 400 volt network. i screamed out loud, and right after i let go my finger didn't hurt that much, but you could smell the burned flesh meters away. getting electrocutated is something unlike any other pain. it's not easy to explain that..

[@illstplaya]

To everyone asking, the eel does not kill other fish when it shocks one fish because it doesn't have enough amps. Volts is what kills you. Amps is the range. The more amps the further the electricity would go. But since it has a very low amperage it doesn't go far

[@zenitsuagatsuma9076]

if feel like current is what kills, not volts

[@timhowell6929]

No, voltage does not kill, it is just a potential difference like water pressure differential. Amperage is the number of coulombs (electrons) moving per second. A higher amperage is more lethal than a lower one. For a given resistance, a higher voltage will create a higher amperage (ohms law) but it’s the current flow itself that causes tissue damage.

[@gorgolaka]

I am from Brazil, I have already seen one of these eels up close. The name is Poraque. It can kill even a cayman. Pretty dangerous. Not agressive but better keep distance.

[@snipercube815]

Is it scary knowing that a dangerous creature could be living in your river?

[@gorgolaka]

Snipercube It's kind of scary. But the piranhas and the "Candiru" a small fish that can get into a man's body through the penis scare us a hell lot more than the poraque. The Candiru enters your body and starts eating you from inside. One must go through a surgery to get it removed. It's horrible.

[@snipercube815]

Mark Bred oh yes I've heard of that. When you're swimming they swim in through your penis and the doctors have to cut it off sometimes. As a male that must be pretty darn scary!

[@lordshotgun7168]

@@gorgolaka Not as disgusting as a "pacu", from what I've read it sometimes bites men's p*nises.

[@gorgolaka]

@@lordshotgun7168 Precisely.

[@jacobbarlow9245]

I like pizza

[@CaptainGiratina]

wrong video?

[@jacobbarlow9245]

Na man

[@pjwilliams3406]

My favorite type of fish!⚡️⚡️

[@seunelesaodo9144]

Truly, there's a God 🙌🏽

[@supafrogg258]

They're supposed to taste pretty good; between a catfish & a lobster! -Dipped in a little melted butter, -Mmmm!

[@beautifull4008]

6Foot!!! 0_0

[@EphemeralProductions]

She is cute in her own way. :) But then this is coming from an animal lover!

[@TheDaniel366Cobra]

How did they film it and avoid being shocked?

[@TheDaniel366Cobra]

+Ardent Fan lol, should have guessed it myself, thanks :D

[@TheDaniel366Cobra]

+steve hooker haha, what?

[@lordgordo2684]

+TheDaniel366Cobra damn Steve burned you bro

[@TheDaniel366Cobra]

LORDGORDO ...Or so he thinks :)

[@axxtv9282]

How can electric eel can create a hundred volts? How can he restored it?

[@joycezhang1071]

so scary imagine that living in our ocean

[@snipercube815]

The ocean is salt water and this is a freshwater fish...

[@milamarshall9597]

Six-foot electric nope

[@slizzy6292]

Why doesn't it shock itself?

[@TheBlaze4000]

It does. But it reduces this by placing most of its electric producing organs in the tail while concentrating its vital organs near the head.

[@snipercube815]

It does but it's muscles are designed to stop electricity from damaging organs

[@WantaniaYoko]

That brazilian guy was so lucky that this kind of eel didn't find his ass first.

[@wafi0123]

How they tolerate themselves there own shock and why there 500v cannot damage there own organs is that ac or dc volt ...

[@tristaleow4536]

I used to have electrical eel at my home when i was 3 years old but the eel was too big so i let it free into the reservior.

[@normenable]

Are you sure reservoir wasnt swimming pool :)

[@tristaleow4536]

I free it to a river near my house .

[@ShadowLugia141]

Kawaiiness Glory That was probably a bad idea, unless you live in south America. These fish have certain environmental requirements, just releasing one into a random river is bad for the fish and any other native wildlife. You are lucky it was only one electric eel, don't make that mistake again, look what happened with the burmese python when people released those into the wild

[@lomourkong5190]

ShadowLugia141 MUFFINS!!!! (=(D)

[@lilchix8288]

ShadowLugia141 you have link for videos? sounds interesting.

[@cringus8519]

Gotta get my USB Drive and some Gummy bears...

[@mrsperfectlyfine450]

Holy smokes! That's like a scene right out SuperMario64...I'm talkin' about Jolly Roger Bay. DAMN, nature! You scary!

[@snipercube815]

THAT FUCKIN EEL I SWEAR HE GETS ME EVERY TIME

[@tonycharles9418]

Who are the people voting this down?? WTF, you mad at an electric eel?

[@Meg4mushr00m]

They do have something of a natural battery. It's called a Sach's organ, and the fish uses it locate food by detecting electromagnetic fields. The organ contains modified muscle cells called electrocytes.

[@jakaalatas8938]

they powered by gatorade?

[@Meg4mushr00m]

@@jakaalatas8938 they can be :)

[@ericn391]

Electric eels are like real-life Pokémon in my opinion

[@B1ack_Manta]

They're a large species of knifefish actually. Not catfish!

[@NickTheKid266]

bastard fish

[@katie-jo7945]

Haaaaa

[@saikozen6859]

but doesnt electricity follow water like, how doesnt it just electrify the entire place i dont understand

[@NuclearBombzBlast]

+Mr GirlyGirl Resistance eventually makes the current weaker, dropping how many volts and amperes are going through the water until it's completely insignificant, water's not nearly a good enough conductor for that to happen, but it might work in mercury.

[@GIguy]

Absolutely incredible, Surely, science must be able to learn how to generate electricity without relying on fossil fuel or nuclear power, just by studying this animal. Either that, or everybody has one for a pet, just hook its tank up to the electrical grid in your house, problem solved! But I’d be careful cleaning the tank!

[@lucariolps277]

Well.. Its consuming food and turning it into power.. So it isn't really green. They basically have thousands of cells that produce only a small amount of power. Like 0.15 Volts. But those cells are connected im parallel. So the voltage adds up upon firing.

[@TheWaywardSpiral]

Terra Formars.

[@shehzad2519]

Real life Shazam: *exists* Me: "how did you get your powers?" Shazam: "I got shocked by an electric Eel" Me: "wow i should give it a try too"

[@dilipraii]

This huge predator can blast prey with 500 volts of electricity - enough to stun a grown human. So we have potential to bring electricity into poor country like mine in Nepal.

[@OfficeThug]

The electric field instantly and abruptly leads to the generation of an electric current through ionization of nearby water and fish (the shocky part). Think of it like an invisible lightning bolt that extends from the eel's skin surface. The shock is brief, but most of the eel's body is made up of its electric organs (up to 4/5ths!!). So the shock it can generate is quite large, potential-wise and current-wise, not enough to kill an adult human but more than enough to kill small fish instantly.

[@morat795]

It will be interesting to know just how will the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese.....people who eat everything in the ocean are going to catch & eat this ?

[@lucariolps277]

From what ive read they aren't really eaten. They lack nutritonal value, are mostly bone and electric Organs.

[@DickAmberBush]

Rubber gloves

[@bogercs]

This unique animal might be electric on the outside but deadly on the inside.

[@donutellaparan643]

0:52 I thought It Explode, lol

[@gromzomb]

i read the title as most sexiest six foot long eel XD dafuq

[@missmiranda7711]

Kinky

[@abhiramruthala8342]

it wont hurt if we touch it with rubber gloves right?

[@chancegarrison8239]

Just gotta have Japanese technology to use such powerful energy from electric eels

[@Creanator]

*Turns on captions* "The yield is not going to rest until June." "Five hundred folks, enough to start golf." "Disappears into the market."

[@eligadz]

Now I know why it have to put on a condom first.

[@marknutt6812]

I've only ever held a 5 year old Electric Catfish, that was a bit of a jolt. Can't imagine what this monstrosity would feel like.

[@geeteshkumar566]

That should be sasuke summoning 😂😂😂😂

[@Shoeless598]

Makes me wonder, is this what survived of creatures that can summon the elements ?

[@Shoeless598]

Lol

[@adambagosi5341]

Damn, imagine if humans had this. Then Star Wars would be a documentary.