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We’ve long thought that electric eels hunt individually…until we discovered a lake where one species hunt, and zap, in packs!

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Sources:
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11690-z
https://aqua.org/explore/animals/electric-eel
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11690-z/figures/3
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