Man Hunts Alligator Using an Electric Eel…and it Works
- Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:26am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Did you know an alligator will fall for the old, electric-eel-in-the-water-as-bait-and-weapon trick? Yeah, you would think they would have learned by now.
From NowPublic:
A fisherman in Brazil was reeling in a surprise catch… an electric eel. However, another hunter also [had] an eye on the eel: an alligator (Actually, it looks more like a caiman, but moving right along). The alligator (or caiman) bites the electric eel, and the electric eel demonstrates why it’s called an “electric eel”.
The alligator’s jaws seize up due to the electricity, and the predator just keeps getting zapped, like something out of Crank 2: High Voltage. However, it’s not the voltage that does the damage, but rather the current.There’s a long and detailed discussion on voltage vs current in the Reddit thread where this video was found, but the gist of it is that the electric eel has way more than enough current at its disposal to kill a person.
Indeed, the electric eel survived the encounter, but the alligator was not so lucky.
Now the video, which could be disturbing to some and will definitely upset animal rights activists and anti-hunters:
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Comments (78)
Jim Hubbard
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:04pmI wish I could do that…..I wonder what it would take to combine human DNA and electric eel DNA to create the world’s first real superhero (or villain)?
Report Post »ROLLINGTHUNDER
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:55pmSucks to be the gator.
Report Post »kennyg933
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:42pmDude, I’ve DONE that! But my dyslexia shocked me in the ass after I made a wallet out of the electric eel.
Report Post »stage9
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:39pmI guess my question is, how is genius going to retrieve the gator without shocking the you know what out of himself?
Report Post »Camo Pants
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:11pmGatr: OOOO TASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Eel: *ZAP*
Me: LOL!
Rzrbckfan
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:47pmShocking! I think GM should put an electric eel in each of it’s new electric cars as a back up energy source in case the battery runs down. wink
Report Post »ayemossum
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:37pmThat’s just awesome! I had no idea electric eels could put out THAT much juice. Gotta get me one of those! I’d let it eat my cichlids in a heartbeat, just so I can have a killer electric eel! w00t
Report Post »Mark
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:21pmYou should watch more Discovery Channel. Or one of the other Cable channels they just had a special on that had Electric eels in it a few weeks ago, there is research going on, they are trying to figure out if there are one or two lines of eels since they come in two electrical voltages.
Report Post »Conserving Ink
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:59pmIn other news, scientists have crossed an electric eel with a chicken and now have a meal that will cook itself when startled.
Report Post »_______________________________________________________________
http://conserving-ink.blogspot.com/2010/12/30-day-and-half-full-glass.html
ayemossum
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:39pmha! Even the Global Warming folks could get behind that. No “carbon footprint…” unless it overcooks itself, that is…
Report Post »Vie_En_Ras
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:57pmDang, now I want to watch Crank 2: High Voltage. Ok, so I’ll use any reason to watch a Jason Statham flick. LOL!
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:50pmHey! It looks like the typical american voter! They get all worked up by the slithering eel, they bite by voting for them, and the next four years–ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!
Maybe the American voter could learn something here?
Report Post »Shootist
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:27pmWould it work on Democrats ??
Report Post »JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:46pmsorry
there are some things alligators just will not eat
Democrats are too low on the food chain
Report Post »bigdaddybernie
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:12pmWhat’s for dinner dear?……………EEL……good ,I like eel soup……..be sure you make plenty!
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:10pmI’m getting hungry with all this talk about fried alligator or eel.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:08pmAll I can say is Wow too!! I would have never thought that an eel could actually kill through its ability to shock or whatever. I’ll bet this crock was shocked to learn this as well. Hee heee!
Report Post »Flagwaver
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:53amWow, just wow…
Report Post »BigDog2372
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:52amWhat the??
Report Post »VoiceofReason
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:51ami do not claim to be a scientist, but I would think that if an eel can make that much current in its body a real scientist would figure out how to duplicate it here on land and make some real good of it. Instead ‘ OUR ” scientists waste time on fudging data about global warming.
Report Post »Mark
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:10pmPut them in a tank and power your new Electric Car… ROFLMAO
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:44amMaybe not news…but a great find! Heh, that dude will have a nice pair of new boots and a belt and wallet too!
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:43amThat is awesome.
Report Post »KaptainKody
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:42amSweet. Smoke that gator! Cooked him from the inside out. Now the guy can have some very moist cooked gator and an excellent pelt for aligator boots or aligator hip bags (fanny packs) for all the hand wringing, sissy animal rights sweethearts.
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:41amFound my Christmas gift for Soros. Had been looking for months, now I know.
Gets out special container……begins to pack it carefully…………..
Report Post »Neuhouser
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:49amOh look its an eel from a republican, I hate republicans so much I think I’ll bite it!
Report Post »Neuhouser
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:51am(in voice of george soros)
Report Post »Neuhouser
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:54amabove comment in voice of George Soros
Report Post »Neuhouser
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:09pmstupid posting system, takes five minutes to post some things other things post instantly, cant tell if something went through. *grumble*
Report Post »Gabeslaw
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:41amDude you have no idea what your talking about. Take that tail, get the meat, bread i9t, and then fry it. You are now talking fried gator bites! That‘s how we eat’em in Florida ya’ll! LOL….non-hunters, peta…..KMA!
Report Post »mad hornet
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:32pmHey I’m a PETA member! Isn’t that People Eating Tasty Animals?
Report Post »urbanserf
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:17pmyes indeed that’s how we eat em in florida – plus we catch em more like this :)
Report Post »the eel think is crazy though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7kqkfOLMSY
hooah1701
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 1:49pmMeat is murder…..Tasty, Tasty murder,mmmmmmmm
Report Post »RoguePatriot
Posted on December 11, 2010 at 11:31amGator Tail is excellent… I live in Missouri and down in Cape Girardeu (Rush Limbaughs Hometown) there is a little restaurant/bar by the Mississippi river and they have excellent gator tail!!! And it tastes nothing like chicken!!!! The meat is white, not dirty looking and very good!!!!
Report Post »tuffenough
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:39amthat ain’t nothing — come here to southeast Texas and watch how Cajins and we locals hunt them gators-
Report Post »p.s it will scare the heck out of those polictians that think we will be easy to round up
Slow Cheetah
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:56amSwamp people on the history channel pretty much sums up how you cajuns hunt alligator.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:03pmIf the politicians come to the swamps, then the gators will be well fed for a time.
Report Post »Neuhouser
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:39amdang, thats pretty clever
Report Post »JollyTrooper
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:11pmIn fact, that is one of the cleverest things I have ever seen in the world of hunting.
I have to remember that the next time I get to the Amazon basin.
Report Post »BlueNight
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 6:04pmThat’s nothing. You should see how my dad used a Pikachu to catch our Thanksgiving Pidgeot.
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:34amThats just wrong. Funny as hell. But wrong……………
Report Post »Lesterp
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:46amI must be getting soft in my feelings, I just didn’t dig it.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:14pmAnyone for camin dinner?
Report Post »Mark
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:29pmThat’s what you get in nature for taking something you did not work for. The Caiman did not hunt the eel but tried to take it from the fisherman and sometimes nature has its way (Evolution).
This Caiman was not smart enough to know that it was an electric eel still alive so he paid the price of stupidity, genetic weakness, smaller gene pool for the weaker line this would have created.
Report Post »teenconservative
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:36pmI‘ve had gator before I don’t like it much but that‘s the coolest way I’ve seen anyone fish ever ,hands down P.E.T.A. people for eating tastey animals.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:38pmBest fishing gear in the world is 30 foot of wire and an old crank telephone. Dynamite plunger is second and electric blasting cpas are third. Hungry people will find ways to feed themselves. Too bad all fish in the USA is too poluted to eat.
Report Post »KevStutzCanDo
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 7:10amThey say fried gater tastes like chicken!
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