Does animals body conduct electricity. why?
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The body is merely one large machine full of circuitry and electricity. Since practically 70% of the body is made up of water, it is considered to be a good conductor of electricity on average. This is due to the ions (i.e. Na+, K+, Cl−) that are contained within the water.
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From electric eels to the execution chair, the story of electricity involves more than a shock or two.
So, just how did scientists use nature to harness this mysterious force?
We think of electricity as something man-made and modern. But, in fact, it exists in all of us biologically and it took the discovery of a fish capable of zapping us with 600 volts for us to learn how to generate it artificially.
That creature was the so-called electric eel (Electrophorus electricus), native to the Amazon River. This sizeable marine animal (technically a fish, often mistaken for an eel) can expend enough electricity to leave horses writhing in agony.
Its body contains three organs made up of electrolytes, or ‘battery cells’, lined up so that a current of ions can flow through them, and stacked so as to add power. Its biology proved so pivotal to informing human understanding of electricity that the inventor of the battery copied its formation.
There are very few electric animals and the majority of them are fish. The electric catfish is found in tropical Africa and the Nile River and can emit 350 volts. The electric ray, or torpedo fish, can produce around 220 volts and was documented by the Ancient Greeks and nicknamed the ‘numbfish’ because it was used as a basic anaesthetic in early medicine.
There are also animals that use electricity to help them locate prey or navigate in murky waters. Sharks are famously spectacular at electroreception, which is why they’re such good predators. If your muscles give off a spark of electricity (which they do if you’re alive), sharks will find you.
Most electroreceptive animals are water-dwellers. But there are a limited number of electric mammals, such as the land-dwelling echidna (sometimes known as a spiny anteater), and its cousin the duck-billed platypus, which lives both in water and on dry land.
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