a bunch of electric eels... How come they don't shock each other to death?
81351
they have the same polarity whence there is no dynamic current, just a static electricity
801430
There Sach's organ has a stack of electroplaques, which acts somewhat as a stack of battery plates. There evolutionary history is not know to me.
1047703
Fish don't hold thier breath
410512
maybe their HORNS doesn't work..lol\n\nringing BELLS, ringing BElls.. mad cow layed a pooh..lolmao!:)
456231
Because they are not grounded (i.e. they are making contact with nothing but the line) the electicity doesn't flow through their bodies. \nI lived on a farm as a kid and when we were wearing rubber boots we could touch the electric fence without getting zapped for the same reason: the rubbed didn't conduct so we weren't grounded.
1071764
it would travel the same 2 inches that separate the prongs on the stun-baton. salty water is perfect conductor of electricity.\n\nif you want to achieve the effect of lightning striking the ocean, you would have to find a way to stick only one prong of stun-baton into the water.\n\nif you want to get some fish, you can stick two electodes into the water like 10 yeards apart, and connect them to a better source of electricity (like welding arc generator). But then again, TNT is easier.
740617
They don't. they get carryed around by the current.
333005
TO GET SHOCK THERE SHOULD EXIST A SHORT CONTACT THAT MEANS IF BIRD TOUCHES ONLY PHASE WIRE OR NEUTRAL WIRE IT DOESNT GET SHOCH BUT IF IT ACCIDENTALLY TOUCHES BOTH THEN IT WILL DIE
1029853
When the bird perches on a live wire, her body becomes charged--for the moment, it's at the same voltage as the wire. But no current flows into her body. A body is a poor conductor compared to copper wire, so there's no reason for electrons to take a detour through the bird. More importantly, electrons current flow from a region of high voltage to one of low voltage. The drifting current, in effect, ignores the bird. \n\nBut if a bird (or a power line worker) accidentally touches an electrical "ground" while in contact with the high-voltage wire, she completes an electrical circuit. A ground is a region of approximately zero voltage. The earth, and anything touching it that can conduct current, is the ground.
323586
You only get an electrical shock if you touch both the wire and another thing (in most people's case, the ground) Then the current passes from the cable to the other thing through you. If you're ever silly enough to try, you can hang from the cable with one hand and nothing will happen to you, either.
300329
I dunno, but they shouldnt be..theyre living creatures too
524779
lemmings do not actually behave this way.  this is a myth that walt disney invented for a nature movie.  \n\n"The cliff-death-plunge sequence was done by herding the lemmings over a small cliff into a river. It's easy to understand why the filmmakers did this - wild animals are notoriously uncooperative, and a migration-of-doom followed by a cliff-of-death sequence is far more dramatic to show than the lemmings' self-implemented population-density management plan."  \n\nso go ahead, be a lemming.  they are independent thinkers, and tend not to cooperate with overbearing mean-spirited people that would just as soon kill a lot of innocent beings instead of tell the truth.
763223
I guess to be "eel-like" having no legs, being aquatic and posses functional or vestigial or reduced fins. Lamprey move by moving their bodies back and forth, to create propulsin, this is undulatory. Sinusoidal movement is what snakes use, it is side to side "S" movements, where as eels and lamprey use more of an up and down movement, like a mountain chain (several mountains side by side) they say the undulating mountains.\n\nhope this helps!
698625
Maybe because it is depicting Current flow NOT Electron flow??
1107867
None they'd all Die of Head butting each other too much and the rest of electricution
574224
Mainly because they're filled with water, and don't have to breathe air.  We have difficulty at depths that don't bother fish because we have open cavities in our bodies (such as the periteneal sac around our abdomenal organs), and our lungs need to expand for us to take in air.\n\nHowever, there are still limits to the depths to which many fish can dive.  Buoyancy regulation in bony fishes is controlled through the swim bladder.  By contracting or relaxing the bladder, it essentially changes the density of the fish and they can rise or sink in the water column.  Below certain depths though, the swim bladder becomes too contracted, and can even be crushed, and the fish can die or be unable to return to safer depths.\n\nDeep sea fish (like those weird angler fish and gulper eels and others) have a variety of adaptations that allow them to survive under such intense pressures.  Other critters, like octopus and crabs and tube worms have other adaptations, but most of them involve making sure there's no sealed body cavities that can be compressed by deep ocean pressures.
52412
The electric eel generates its characteristic electrical pulse in a manner similar to a battery, in which stacked plates produce an electrical charge. In the electric eel, some 5,000 to 6,000 stacked electroplaques are capable of producing a shock at up to 500 volts and 1 ampere of current (500 watts). There are reports of animals producing larger voltages, but the typical output is sufficient to stun or deter virtually any other animal. Juveniles produce smaller voltages (about 100 volts). Electric eels are capable of varying the intensity of the electrical discharge, using lower discharges for "hunting" and higher intensities are used for stunning prey, or defending themselves. When agitated, it is capable of producing these intermittent electrical shocks over a period of at least an hour without signs of tiring though the exact mechanism remains largely unknown.\n\nFor more information on the electric eel, visit:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_eel