Answers.com > Wiki Answers > Categories > Animal Life > Fish > Eels > Electric eel is not a real eel?

Electric eel is not a real eel?

In: Eels [Edit categories]

Answer:

An electric eel is a "knifefish" or Gymnotiformes. They are more closely related to catfish.

Contributor:

Lim

First answer by Lim Siew Kin. Last edit by LazyGenius343. Contributor trust: 17 [recommend contributor ]. Question popularity: 1 [recommend question].

[report abuse]

Can you answer these Eels questions?

	What is the size to a baby moray eel?	Answer it!
	What would you find?	Answer it!
	What is the gulper eel's food chain?	Answer it!
	What do eels do to survive?	Answer it!
	What does a gulper eel looks like?	Answer it!

Are electric eels real?
electric eels are real they're just not real eels although they're similar.
What is the difference between an eel and an electric eel?
The eel is not electric and is able to be touched by human where as the electric eel will zap you if you touch it.
What is electric eel?
The electric organs in an electric eel make up four-fifths of its body, which in terms create a static-like glow, determining it's name. Although it has 1/5 of the rest of it exactly like for...
Is a gulper eel a real eel?
Gulper eels look like eels in many ways but are not 'true eels'.
Why are electric eels electric?
to kill the fish that they eat