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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