BCP 101 EL: v5 (First Timers)

THE ELECTRIC EEL: The electric eel can grow to be a whopping  6 ‘ long!

THE ELECTRIC EEL: The electric eel can have 5,000-6,000 electrocytes in its body. The electric eel can give a charge of 600 volts which could kill an animal.

THE ELECTRIC EEL: One way natives capture the eel in the Amazon River is to catch it barehanded. The charges do’t bother us much.

THE ELECTRIC EEL: The electric eel is believed to the the inspiration of Thomas Edisons 1799 world’s first battery.

THE ELECTRIC EEL: Electrocytes have thousands of pumping proteins all over their surfaces that pump sodium ions outside of the cells.

THE ELECTRIC EEL: Each electrocyte cluster generates a wimpy 1/7 volt charge.

THE ELECTRIC EEL: All the electrocytes are hooked together by cellular ropes that help the charges to combine to be a whooping 600-volt blast.

THE ELECTRIC EEL: Eels shock each other as part of their mating ritual.  

THE ELECTRIC EEL: Alessandro Volta’s 1799 first battery was called the genuine alternating battery.

PLATYPUS: The platypus doesn’t generate electricity. The bill (nose) of a platypus has electricity detectors that it waves back and forth.