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None do this better than electric eels. Their electric organs take up most of their 7-foot-long bodies, and contain around 100 stacks of between 5,000 and 10,000 electrocytes. The most powerful of the three electric eel species can discharge 860 volts—enough to incapacitate a horse.[*2]
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by Ed Yong
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