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They emit weak electric discharges to sense their location and find shelter.

The researchers believe the rapidity of those pulses produced the atmospheric changes in the nick of time to create a column of hot air that favors electric discharge.

Last week, the FAA proposed another airworthiness directive to address potential electric discharge in the fuel tanks of Boeing 777 series planes if a lightning strike or an electrical short-circuit occurs.

The researchers suspect these electric eels orchestrate their attacks by communicating via low-voltage electric discharges.

The animal is capable of producing an 860-volt electric shock - the strongest electric discharge of any animal on Earth, and almost four times the voltage from a UK plug socket.