A full-grown electric eel can generate about 600 volts of electricity. Although there are few documented instances of people dying from an electric eel’s shock, it could happen. A single jolt could incapacitate a person long enough to cause him or her to drown, even in shallow water.

Some of the “muscle” cells would probably “fire” and twitch, though they probably wouldn’t have enough strength to amount to much out of water. Some of the stinger cells would as well. Since it’s mostly made out of water, it might cause some damage via electrical burns. A taser isn’t used to electrocute people.

One or more of the invertebrate’s tentacles break off in the eel’s mouth, allowing the octopus to wriggle free. In fact, it is that wily nature—as well as the remarkable flexibility and slipperyness of the animal—that might have led the eel to try to subdue its prey by coiling its body around the octopus.

Technically, yes. However, they are rarely a source of food for humans for practical reasons. For one, they are very dangerous to catch. And second, as said earlier, they belong to the family of bony fishes, which means they have very little meat suitable for human consumption.

Out of water, the high voltage electrical salvo zaps a target directly through the skin near the eel’s chin, intensifying the effect. …

Not only is eel a delightful treat, the list of health benefits is extensive. To begin with, it contains a good amount of calcium, magnesium, potassium, selenium, manganese, zinc and iron. For the carb-conscious, eel contains no sugar, and is low in sodium and high in phosphorus.

Unlike many other migrating fish, eels begin their life cycle in the ocean and spend most of their lives in fresh inland water, or brackish coastal water, returning to the ocean to spawn and then die.

World’s oldest eel dies aged 155, Sweden mourns

• It lived through the American Civil War, Two World Wars and the entire 86-year-period of the Curse of the Bambino.
• But the world’s oldest living eel is no more.
• Its Swedish owners claim Ale the eel has finally died, aged 155.

Eels’ blood is poisonous, which discourages other creatures from eating them. A very small amount of eel blood is enough to kill a person, so raw eel should never be eaten. Their blood contains a toxic protein that cramps muscles, including the most important one, the heart.

But McKinnon says even large eels are relatively harmless: “most people have a primitive fear of eels because they look like snakes. If you swam with them, they might be curious but wouldn’t bite unless you grabbed them. The teeth are very short and formed into plates, so the worst you’d get is a V-shaped welt.

They are muscular with a girth of the size of your forearm and their body slime does make them “slippery as an eel.” They are a top predator in our river and they will bite anything that annoys them including anyone who inadvertently hooks one. …

River eels are found in most freshwater bodies of water except Stillwater Lake in the Wildlands. Most species are completely harmless save for a bad temper that leads to bites when their territory is invaded – and those bites are usually more painful than serious.

American eels are the only species of freshwater eel found in North America. They live along the Atlantic coastline from Venezuela to Greenland and Iceland. Eels can also be found in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River (Figure 1).

The females release their eggs, the males fertilise them, and the adults die after spawning. The eggs hatch into larvae that float to the surface and drift back towards New Zealand. They may take about 17 months to arrive. Over a decade (or more) later, adult eels head out to sea to spawn, and the cycle continues.

Eels swim by generating waves which travel the length of their bodies. Most eels live in the shallow waters of the ocean and burrow into sand, mud, or amongst rocks. A majority of eel species are nocturnal, thus are rarely seen. Sometimes, they are seen living together in holes, or “eel pits”.