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Yes they can Kill... The shock from an electric eel affects the body by altering physiological functions such as involuntary muscle actions and respiration. Symptoms of being shocked by an electric eel can be respiratory paralysis and cardiac failure. These symptoms may result in death. Eels also have powerful jaws and can bite a finger right off of a diver if they are not careful. This could in theory cause death if medical treatment was not made available soon. http://hypertextbook.com/facts/BarryLajnwand.shtml
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agoYes, a human adult could be killed by an Electric Eel shock. Probably by one defending itself, rather than while hunting. When they hunt they use lower voltage, just to stun their prey. but when frightened they can produce a lethal discharge. A juvenile doesn't produce such a lethal voltage, but an adult Electric Eel can produce anywhere from 500 to 650 volts when frightened, startled and defending itself. For more detail, please see the site listed below.
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∙ 14y agoNo. We're too big.
Addendum to above answer:
Electric eels can be potentially harmful to humans but they do not anything nearly as large as us. Electric eels eat fish and small animals.
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∙ 12y agoYes, electric eels can harm you
because they can let out up to
600 volts of energy through Their
electroplates. That is enough energy
to kill or seriously injure people or animals.
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∙ 11y agoyes they can kill people or they can eat the people
Seth Garcia
yeah they electric you every put a 9v on your tongue?
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What eat electric eels?
No water animals eats the electric eels since electric eels have very powerful shocks that can paralyze or hurt anything that gets its way. Humans have been known to eat electric eels on very rare occasions.
What eats the electric eel?
Humans do eat electric eels when they are dead. The electric eel's meat tastes like fish.
What does electric eels eat?
fish
How does electric eels eat?
They eat through their mouths.
What do baby electric eels eat?
other baby eels (dead ones)
Why are eels electric?
to kill the fish that they eat
Do sharks eat electric eels?
Electric eels lives if freshwater rivers. Sharks almost all live in the open ocean. They just wouldn't meet. So no, Sharks don't eat Electric eels.
What do Electric Eels eat and drink?
Electric eels feed on invertebrates, where adult eels eat fish and small mammals. First-born hatchlings will even eat other eggs and embryos from later batches. The juveniles will eat invertebrates such as shrimp or crab.
Do humans eat moray eels?
yes
Do electric eels eat plants?
yes but they only eat things smaller than their size
What are the predators of electric eels?
Electric eels are what is known as an "apex predator". These are predators that don't have any natural predators of their own. The electric eel has the ability to produce 600 volts of electricity through it's body which is an self-defense mechanism that makes it extremely difficult for anything to eat it. In fact, it has been noted that alligators have died from biting into an electric eel.
What to electric eels eat?
do not dirty the water
