Watch an electric eel leap out of water to shock a threat

Experiments at Vanderbilt University have proven a 200-year-old account that electric eels can leap out of water and shock a horse to death made by Alexander von Humboldt Vanderbilt University biologist Ken Catania found that when an eel is submerged the power of its electrical pulses is distributed throughout the water freezing its target into state of shock Out of water, the high voltage electrical salvo zaps a target directly through the skin near its chin, intensifying the attack