Jan. 14 (UPI) --Electric eels, fish that use electric shocks to zap their prey, typically live solitary lives. But in an extraordinary find, scientists have for the first time observed electric ...

Then groups of up to 10 eels periodically split off to form cooperative hunting parties, not unlike packs of wolves or pods of killer whales. Those smaller groups then surrounded the prey ball and ...

Deep in the Brazilian Amazon River basin, scientists led by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History fish research associate C. David de Santana discovered a small, river-fed lake filled ...

Electric eels are spotted hunting in a GROUP for the first time, delivering a deadly combined zap to unsuspecting prey. Previous studies suggested electric eels were solitary creatures ...

Electric eels have been found to hunt in packs in the first documented case of its kind, which researchers have called an “extraordinary discovery.”. Scientists working in the Brazilian Amazon ...

they filmed more than 100 Volta’s electric eels (Electrophorus voltai) hunting as a group. The researchers saw that around dusk and dawn, a gaggle of eels in a lake started swimming in circles ...

Electric eels in the hunting area, Iriri River. Photo: Douglas Bastos. Carlos David de Santana—an ichthyologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and senior author on the ...

Scientists discover electric eels hunting in a group. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 01 / 210114163927.htm. Smithsonian.

This article is based on an article, “Interspecific Communicative and Coordinated Hunting between Groupers and Giant Moray Eels in the Red Sea” publish in PLoS Biology. Credits .

It has generally been thought that electric eels are purely solitary animals, which stalk prey on their own. Now, however, scientists have described seeing the creatures hunting in packs – which ...

Killer whales. And now electric eels? Researchers studying the slinky anguilliformes observed an unexpected (shall we say shocking?) behavior when they noticed the fish hunting in groups along the ...