Nature

Electric eels can leap out of the water to shock a threat directly

Electric eels don't just shock underwater — when a predator or a person approaches, an eel can rise up and press its chin against the threat, delivering a more concentrated jolt out of the water. Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt described something similar in 1800, but researchers only confirmed and measured the behaviour experimentally two centuries later.

Kenneth Catania, Electric Eels Concentrate Their Electric Field to Enhance the Effectiveness of Shocking Behavior — Current Biology, 2016

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