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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Astonishing Behavior of Electric Eels. | Oct 17, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Astonishing Behavior of Electric Eels. | Apr 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Sustainable Electric Energy Microgeneration System Based on Electric Eels (PDF). | Feb 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Astonishing Behavior of Electric Eels. | Nov 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Electric Eels Concentrate Their Electric Field to Induce Involuntary Fatigue in Struggling Prey. | Oct 11, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Yale University - Biomimicry Workshop - Electric Eel. | Aug 30, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Natural History Museum - How do electric eels work? | Jun 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - Shocking news: world's most powerful electric eel found in Amazon. | Apr 24, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Scientific Reports - The third form electric organ discharge of electric eels. | Mar 15, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Scientific Reports - The third form electric organ discharge of electric eels. | Mar 15, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Western Australia - Electric eels. | Jan 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience - The Astonishing Behavior of Electric Eels. | Oct 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Animal Diversity Web - Electric eel. | Sep 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute - Electric eel. | Feb 27, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: AZ Animals - Electric Eel. | Feb 27, 2022 | ||
| Noted that Volta's electric eels (Electrophorus voltai) may coordinate their attacks to capture prey. Added common names for Electrophorus varii and Electrophorus voltai. | Jan 27, 2021 | ||
| Changed “or extending the head up and out of the water” to “or by extending the head up and out of the water.” | Feb 12, 2020 | ||
| Added an illustration of the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus). | Feb 12, 2020 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Sep 17, 2019 | ||
| Described how electric eels (Electrophorus electricus) deliver electric shocks and how shocks against partially submerged animals can be stronger than to fully submerged animals. | Feb 19, 2018 | ||
| Added a photograph of an electric eel (Electrophorus electricus). | Feb 19, 2018 | ||
| Cross-references added. | Nov 09, 2015 | ||
| Description of the electric organs of Electrophorus electricus added, along with an explanation of its curling behavior while hunting. | Nov 09, 2015 | ||
| Text added noting the possible behavioral reasons why the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus) discharges electricity. | Mar 18, 2015 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 16, 2010 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 14, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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