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In the electric eel, some 5,000 to 6,000 stacked electroplaques are capable of producing a shock at up to 600 volts and 1 ampere of current (600 watts) for a duration of two milliseconds.
The reason the eel does not shock itself is that the electrical shock is distributed by its whole body, which is roughly the size of an adult man's arm. To make muscles in an arm to spasm you need 200 milliamps of current flowing for a minimum of 50 milliseconds. The animal's prey is smaller than the eel--a fish one tenth the eel's length would be one thousandth the eel's volume. The skin of the eel has a higher electrical resistance than a fish does, so the electrical flow will go through the prey much more readily than the eel's body.