how do electric eels electrocute? Is it actually electricity and how do they do it?

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how do electric eels electrocute? Is it actually electricity and how do they do it?

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The reason they’re called electric eels, is that they produce electricity to stun their prey. They’re body generates and stores electrical energy through thousands of cells and they utilise it either as a high energy attack or as a low energy pulse, like radar, to track their prey