2. Electric eel meat is delicious and nutritious. Although it can release powerful current, South American aborigines need a period of rest and rich food to restore the original characteristics of discharge intensity after continuous use of electric eel. First, a group of cattle and horses are driven into the river, which makes the electric eel fidgety and constantly discharge. When the electric eel is exhausted after discharge, it can be directly captured.
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1, Electric Eel, an eel-shaped South American fish of the family Electric Eel, whose Latin name is Electric Eel. It can generate enough electric current to make people dizzy, and it is the freshwater fish with the strongest discharge ability. The output voltage can reach 300 ~ 800 volts, so the electric eel is called the "high voltage line" in the water. ?
2. It is not a real eel, but it is closely related to Siluridae. The electric eel was selected as one of the "most terrible freshwater animals on earth" by the website of National Geographic magazine. ? There are dozens of known power-generating fish in the world, and other fish that can discharge electricity include electric catfish, electric ray and so on.
3. Electropterus is distributed in Guyana, the Amazon basin in South America, and most of them live in shallow ponds or muddy shores. This is a famous big fish. Its superb discharge ability makes it a very famous fish, which can be used as a display fish or an ornamental fish in an aquarium.
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Baidu encyclopedia electric eel