Curling boosts an eel's electric field to trigger hard and fast contractions in prey, leading to muscle fatigue. Prey are then too tired to struggle and escape – the animals are completely ...

Catania, K. Electric eels concentrate their electric field to induce involuntary fatigue in struggling prey. Current Biology , October 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.036 Cite This Page : ...

To see them manipulate their electric field and do these more intricate things is really amazing." Catania captured the eels' stereotyped curling behavior on film (see video).

When the eel curls up in this horseshoe shape, something similar happens — it produces a strong electric field. "When the eel curls its positive and negative poles together and sandwiches the ...

Electric Eels Curl Up to Double Their Shock Value The predators take down difficult prey by curling up their bodies to create a powerful electric dipole field ...

For all thicknesses, except 3 u.c., application of an external electric field switches polarization and induces a significant TER effect, as previous studies have shown 10,20. All of the ...

A new study is shedding light on why solar radiation is more effective than other forms of energy at causing water to evaporate. The key factor turns out to be the oscillating electric field inherent ...

Using Eliashberg theory, the required electric field strength is quantified as approximately 10 8 V/m, matching experimental observations and enabling advances in superconducting electronics.

"When the eel curls its positive and negative poles together and sandwiches the prey in between, you get a focusing of the electric field," Catania said. But electric eels don't actually double ...

It's kind of like walking straight into an electric fence, or getting shot with a stun gun. "You wouldn't voluntarily do it over and over again," said Kenneth Catania, a professor of biological ...