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Something like: Hey! It's dead! It's dead! Get someone. It's dead!.... Kinda sucks he moved the camera right when the alligator died.
electric eels are such awesome creatures.. truly fascinating The electric eel generates its characteristic electrical pulse in a manner similar to a battery, in which stacked plates produce an electrical charge. In the electric eel, some 5,000 to 6,000 stacked electroplaques are capable of producing a shock at up to 500 volts and 1 ampere of current (500 watts). Such a shock could be deadly for an adult human. (Electrocution death is due to current flow; the level of current that is fatal in humans is roughly 0.75A.)
He said he accidentally hooked the eel, and once he saw the gator approach, he left the eel on the edge of the bank to witness the gator eat it. He could have pulled the eel ashore and unhooked it, but he left it for dead. At the end, he's yelling to his friend ("Moco"), "Run over here. Quick, I need your help."
what language is he speaking? just curious He is actually lucky the gator came .. he might have gotten electrocuted if he tried to unhook it.. just cut your line and stay away
He's speaking Portuguese, filmed in Brazil. Also, it appears to be a crocodile, not an alligator. V-shaped snout is a dead giveaway.
Ya, I was wondering that. Every place I looked had it miss labeled. Meh. Too late to edit the title of the thread.
Some reason I always thought they lived in the ocean...lol. The electric eel dwells in the freshwater rivers of the lower Amazon basin in South America. The rainforest environment provides a diet of smaller freshwater fish, and amphibians. Another distinguishing feature about the Amazon river habitat is the low concentration of dissolved oxygen in the water. For this reason the eel surfaces frequently, as previously mentioned, to gain sufficient oxygen for respiration. From Wikipedia: Habitat Electric eels live in fresh waters of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers, the basins in South America, in river floodplains, swamps, creeks and coastal plains. They often live on muddy bottoms in calm water and in stagnant rivers Guess, I'm just so used to seeing those other eels in the oceans that live around coral reefs.
