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Some electric eels coordinate their attacks to zap prey
Publicado em 25 janeiro 2021
One Volta’s electric eel is scary enough. It can subdue small fish with an 860-volt jolt. Now imagine more than 100 of them swirling about, unleashing coordinated electric attacks.
Such a sight was assumed to be only the stuff of nightmares.
These critters aren’t actually eels. A type of knifefish, they belong to the species Electrophorus voltai. Researchers had long thought they were solitary, nocturnal hunters. The fish tend to use their electric sense to find smaller fish as [...]