The first time I read von Humboldt's tale, I thought it was completely bizarre, why would the eels attack the horses instead of swimming away?

Ken Catania

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When you see the LEDs light up, think of them as the endings of pain nerves being stimulated. That will give you an idea of how effective these attacks can be.

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As soon as I filmed them with a high speed camera I saw some amazing things and I was kind of hooked on to a research path to try and understand what was going on.

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So it really is a remote control in a sense of the eels' neurons activating through the electric generating organs the neurons in the prey. And so they are remotely activating their preys' muscles and essentially taking over their peripheral nervous system.

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