9. Electric eel

The electric ell has a unique hunting technique that almost never fails, and let me tell you, they are very very special. They like to live in Amazon’s dark and murky waters. Electric eels kill their prey by using their shock power to control the victim’s muscles. They are very, very fast, and almost never fail. When they feel the prey approaching, thanks to their motion-sensitive hairs on their body, electric eels send two rapid electric pulses that immobilize and paralyze the victim.

They are carnivorous predators, usually eating fish, crustaceans, insects, amphibians, reptiles. “Striking eels emit electricity in volleys of 1 ms, high-voltage pulses,” explained neurobiologist Kenneth Catania. “In a typical attack, eel discharges cause brief, immobilizing tetanus, allowing eels to swallow small prey almost immediately.”

“The eel essentially has remote control over the prey’s muscles and runs them to exhaustion, leaving the prey temporarily helpless.”

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