{"id":1690,"date":"2017-09-22T15:38:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2018-02-05T03:25:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T03:25:28","slug":"we-can-already-know-what-the-electric-eels-actually-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/what-electric-eels-actually-do\/","title":{"rendered":"We Can Already Know What The Electric Eels Actually Do"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kenneth Catania set out to create an equation through which one could know how much electricity an electric eel can provide in one of its attacks. Discover below how he achieved his mission and what he discovered.<\/p>\n
Kenneth Catania is a biologist at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, who knows how much it hurts to be electrocuted by electric eels, as he has measured the strength of a defensive electrical attack against a potential real predator, himself.<\/p>\n
Catania placed his arm inside a tank with an electric eel of 40 centimeters long (relatively small in comparison with the average dimensions of these animals) and determined, in amperes, the electric current that flowed in him when the eel attacked.<\/p>\n