When you have dadao to know this fact about electric eels, more than one has been brought his hands to his head, as they present a particular feature when hunting that makes it a unique animal in nature. Eels downloaders up to 600 volts to its victims, but until now scientists have discovered they can also use them to remotely control the movements of fish, according to National Geographic magazine.
Scientists led by biologist at Vanderbilt University, USA, Kenneth Catania explains that the mechanism resembles him Temporal Deterrent Immobilizer, better known as taser.
This is the first and only evidence that an animal can remotely control another. “The capabilities of eels are impressive: if the prey is hidden, makes getting your muscles and when near the immobilized” says Catania.
The journal Science published an article explaining that the electric eel is one of the creatures that produce electric shocks and is the first animal capable of using electricity as a remote control to direct the movements of their prey and thus facilitate their capture.
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The novelty of the research presented this week is that the team led by Kenneth Catania of Vanderbilt University in Nashville (USA) has shown that the Electric eel can emit a high voltage discharges that “trigger massive, involuntary muscle contractions in prey fish that prevent their escape movements,” explains Science.
Catania experiments show that this specific type of discharges affecting motor neurons that control muscles of fish, monitoring movements remotely, mimicking the electrical pulses neurons own, and that normally serve the fish to stimulate muscle movement and escape their predators.
Other researchers are studying these animals at the molecular level, to see how these and other electric fish manage to “make” a battery from muscle tissue.
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