{"id":16363,"date":"2017-08-04T13:03:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T11:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsite.akwarium.gdynia.pl\/?p=16363"},"modified":"2023-05-12T21:01:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T19:01:51","slug":"electric-eel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.akwarium.gdynia.pl\/en\/electric-eel\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric eel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Electrophorus electricus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Order: <\/strong>Gymnotiformes | Family<\/strong>: Gymnotidae<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This fish is commonly known as the electric eel<\/strong>. The name comes from the characteristic body shape that resembles an eel, but this fish is actually more closely related to the families Cyprindae <\/strong>and Siluriformes<\/strong>. These fish can be found in the waters of the Amazon River <\/strong>and the Orinoco River<\/strong>. They live in muddy currents enriched in salts and minerals that conduct electricity really well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have a positive charge near their head and a negative one close to their tail end. They produce an electric charge at the front of their body that comes back through the water to the tail. This creates a closed circuit that has the shape of an electric cloud which paralyzes or kills everything around. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are electrolytes on the body of this fish, which receive electric stimuli from their surroundings. This is called electroreception<\/strong>. With the use of their special Hunter and Sachs organs<\/strong>, they send two types of electric discharges. Sachs\u2019 organ<\/strong> is used as radar for electrolocation<\/strong>. The lower voltage of this organ helps them move through the muddy waters, which is especially useful because they lose their sight with age. Sachs\u2019 organ<\/strong> is also used for sensing potential prey and partially blinding it, if the prey is small. This organ also plays a major role in finding a partner. When attacking larger prey, the eel activates Hunter\u2019s organ<\/strong>, which produces a stronger discharge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fish can regulate the strength of discharges according to its needs and the size of the prey. The strongest discharge ever captured was in a zoo in the United States and measured 600 V<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Electrophorus electricus Order: Gymnotiformes | Family: Gymnotidae This fish is commonly known as the electric eel. The name comes from the characteristic body shape that resembles an eel, but this fish is actually more closely related to the families Cyprindae and Siluriformes. These fish can be found in the waters of the Amazon River and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,440],"tags":[746],"class_list":["post-16363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","category-fish","tag-electric-eel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.akwarium.gdynia.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.akwarium.gdynia.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.akwarium.gdynia.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.akwarium.gdynia.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.akwarium.gdynia.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.akwarium.gdynia.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16368,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.akwarium.gdynia.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363\/revisions\/16368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.akwarium.gdynia.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.akwarium.gdynia.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.akwarium.gdynia.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.akwarium.gdynia.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}