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New Electric Eel Is Most Shocking Yet
Publicado em 10 de setembro de 2019
The average shock from an electric eel lasts about two-thousandths of a second. The pain isn’t searing — unlike, say, sticking your finger in a wall socket — but isn’t pleasant: a brief muscle contraction, then numbness.
For scientists who study the animal, the pain comes with the professional territory.
“I remember the first time I was shocked,” said Carlos David de Santana, an ichthyologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., [...]