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Living eel measuring 30 cm pulled out from Vietnamese man's belly, doctors perplexed

An X-ray and ultrasound had unveiled a foreign entity within his abdomen, alongside signs of intestinal perforation and peritonitis

23 March 2024, 10:40 IST

Living eel measuring 30 cm pulled out from Vietnamese man's belly, doctors perplexed

Living eel measuring 30 cm pulled out from Vietnamese man's belly, doctors perplexed

Living eel measuring 30 cm pulled out from Vietnamese man's belly, doctors perplexed

23 March 2024, 10:40 IST

The fish that tweets

“Ouch! That hurt!”— that’s what one would say when struck by 800 V of electricity for a few seconds. But when this jolt comes from the electric eel, the disgust soon turns into wonder because this South American native is the world’s strongest bioelectricity generator! Electrophorus electricus is not really an eel but belongs to the knifefish family, and is closely related to carp and catfish. At about six feet long and weighing around 20 kg, most of the electric eel’s body has been specifically designed to produce the strongest electric shocks that it uses to stun its prey and navigate. How often does the eel produce these shocks? To know that, follow @EelectricMiguel on Twitter; that’s Tennessee Aquarium’s Miguel Wattson—the world’s only electric eel that sends out a tweet whenever it generates an electric pulse!

14 April 2022, 07:07 IST

The fish that tweets

The fish that tweets

The fish that tweets

14 April 2022, 07:07 IST