How do fish make electricity? - Eleanor Nelsen
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
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Nearly 350 species of fish have specialized anatomical structures that generate and detect electrical signals. Underwater, where light is scarce, electrical signals offer ways to communicate, navigate, find, and sometimes stun prey. But how do these fish produce electricity? And why? Eleanor Nelsen illuminates the science behind electric fish.
Lesson by Eleanor Nelsen, directed by TOTEM Studio.
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I love this cahnnel
TED-Ed make more riddles because in my school we always try solve them when it's nearly home time plz
Just to let you know: Schnauzenorgan is a German compound of Schnauze (snout) and Organ (organ). So it's basically just the snout, or snout organ =)
Make more riddles, please?
This is the closest thing to a Pokémon we’ve ever discovered
oh boy oh boy, not at all, nature hold much more crazy stuff bro
just look at insects
@@npc4416 like earthworms 😂
@@thatsalot3577 ahh yes, yummy dirt 😋
I burst out laughing when I read this 😂
Anyway, it's true.
My goodness!!! 🤣🤣
It's true anyway!
It’s my understanding that the spasms produced by the shock from an electric ray can be so violent that it’s not uncommon for the prey fish to actually break its own back.
That's also related to adrenaline in humans. Human muscles are much more powerful than their average use. Adrenaline "unlocks" the max capacity. This "unlocking" system is temporary because we can hurt ourselves in many ways, lol
Teacher: There’s no electric in 1770s
Eel: Am I joke to you?
@CookieLove What
He typed it backwards. Read from the last word to the first.
Lol
@Vayaros not discovered, but harnessed. As humans already discovered lightning and such much earlier.
In 1770s Human don't know about electricity and how to produce it.
Turns out that these fishes are one of the first electrical engineers of mother nature (who herself is one), being able to detect, analyse, and transmit changes in electric fields and signals respectively.. how incredible!
Yup, nature has many secrets and discovering them could potentially lead to many great advancements.
There's no such a thing as "mother nature". This fish for example is way too complicated, you can say it's well engineered, so there's The One who created it.
Humans are also mother nature's doing :D
@_retrophile_7473 your perspective is interesting, maybe your perspective is just a more specific term for an extremely similar but abstract concept! I like how you try to bridge their verbiage with something more specific but I can't tell if you guys understand each other or disagree ! 🤔
Are these pokemon water or electric type?
Ignacio water/electric dual type
asking the real questions here
Ignacio Both
LagiNaLangAko23 SCIENCE!!!
electric/water, just as chinchou and lanturn
Finally learnt how pikachu uses thunder bolt
Yes
Lots of mitochondria
There's a video on Game Theory that goes into depth about how Electric-Type moves work.
You are Pikachu
@@voltage7498 bulba!
I legit just figured electric eels was a play on words and it just had some sort of poison on its skin that caused a pain similar to a shock. I never actually figured they could produce true electricity. That is so insane
I'm so lost now
On god that’s why I’m here at 12:30am
@@itsprobablywill I read this comment at 12:30 am
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3:35 can't belive Ted-Ed predicted among us
This is the best channel!
Thank you, Jack and the derby boy! 😊
Death.
Agreed
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HelloIAm JoshuaBilly for someone who loves marine biologi and science I learn and have fun at the same time!
I'm german and just wanted to say that "Schnauzenorgan" litearlly means snout-organ. Have a nice day.
Malzahar - ikr funny how she pronounced it
Snauuzenorgan ^^
Goo back to the void
i always love stumbling over German terms in science that just kinda?? became a thing there??? and then native English speakers have to go thru the trouble of trying to pronounce it lmao
+bobdigitally The internet counts as void, right?
Imagine evolving for millions of years just to get classified as “weakly electric”
I asked my wife if she wanted to see my Shnauzenorgan. It didn't end well.
That should only be a problem if you had asked someone else's wife.
Andyroo 101 day amp
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Hahaha
well you have to give her the microscope first
The most important question: how do I charge my phone with it?
Use a charger and eat the fish while waiting is the best use of the fish in this scenario.
microwave your phone with the fish
Enzo Ma. Stick the tip of its tail into the phone port
Feed your phone to the fish
As long as your phone has wireless charging just sit it on their backs
I put this in the search hoping there would be a TED Ed explaining it. You guys rock!
This is so helpful with me. I had wrongly known that the only fish that can create electricity is the electric eel before i watch this. This is so amazing !
Did each type of electric fish evolve electricity separately or is there a common ancestry?
RV separately
If you ever got am answer to this question let me know 🤣
yes they evolved separately. which is awesome.
No... God created them this Way ..
@@hamzasat nice hypothesis but wrong according to me.
I love this channel so much! I share it with everyone at my school and even my friends. It nor only makes learning fun but it's entertaining and it helps me retain the information. Keep up the great work!
Soon we will be powering cars with these. Dudes will be like, "Hey Buddy.. How many eels this thing have?", "well it came stock with 450 eels. I went to the pet shop and added another 50 eels so now im up to a whopping 500 eels.."
How do you fit 500 eels inside a "car"
@@darion1728
The same way you fit "horses" into cars
"SLAPS CAR" This bad boy can fit so many eels in it you won't even need to buy another eel again
@@magicalmagicmagician5223 500 eel power
That would be one electrifying car
i think you are joking Eels have been on earth for a long time why haven't people done anything about it
This channel is refreshing I can feel the knowledge being absorbed thank you for taking the time to create such a masterpiece 💖
This is actually one of the subjects in biology that I always wanted to know
Lets farm them and make endless alternative energy source
Pan Peter You gotta feed them though, and the release of electricity may not be worth the effort of farming to clean the water every day.
Not if we do aqua culture farming methods. But if we genetically modified ourselves then could generate personal Sith lightning for cell phone charging.
bobdigitally still isnt endless
bobdigitally Unlimited Power
triigga s depends how strong you are with the dark side
Great works TED-Ed. Keep going👍🏼
Thanks a lot uploading such a beautiful video. It's easy to understand the entire process. I teach this topic for Zoology students (T.Y. B.Sc). I wish I could have this video during my lecture, it would be more beneficial for them. Anyway, now I have shared link to this video with students.
Thanks again.
This is amazing love your educational videos they have reached me a lot I love it I love animals
Thank you so much, Rimsha! And thanks for watching!
Rimsha Khalid agreed
Rimsha Khalid you are probably non vegetarian
@@drujjawalrathore I-
I literally just said after a long day at the lab that I didn't want anymore information in my head and yet, here I am. Sleep is for the weak, anyway.
Lotte G. Like School Science Lab
Or legit Scientist Lab?
Same
@@ksoundkaiju9256 they are often the same lol, if by school u mean like university
This is best educative channel.Keep up the good work.
Wow this is really helpful at understanding this! Thank you for the video!
I love these kind of animal/biology videos!!! Make more of these and also riddles!
The people who clicked the disliked button must of thought it was the download button.
You mean to say share button?
😂😂
*must have
@@HipHopKitteh my thoughts exactly lolol but still, true story
Thank you for an educative video and the translator , this is a great help in understanding what i learned theory. :D
I always assumed the “electric” part was just a misnomer, and the fish just secreted a stinging venom from its body. But no, it’s actually electricity!! Incredible!
bruh
@@Dieselnaut16 I mean give them a break pretty crazy to think that an animal can produce electricity like a Pokémon
Otherwise it’d be the venomous eel
Am I the only one who is uncomfortable becauae ells can generate electricity without knowing Ohm's law
electricity existed before Ohms law
It must've been grandfathered in after the law passed. =P
How do you know they DON'T know about Ohm's law?
😂😂😂😂😂
Alu Pade LOL
This was shocking.
thumbs down
You won the internet comment.
Lol
AstroLizardChannel I get your joke
Nice one😂
Please keep uploading your videos, i love this channel most
It was at 2:42 when I had to stop the video and smile about the information that the narrator gives us: "The Peter's elephantnose fish, for example, has an elongated chin called a shnauzenorgan...". Oh, the endless jokes and humor that this sentence could generate!
My house is powered by fish. Don’t ask where I got them.
Just like Pikachu...
Dr.StickFigure Pikachu is a mouse.
You mean Electross.
Dr.StickFigure its the other way around: pikachu is just like the Real life animals
Necrozma is the true god
😂
Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you soo much. The information was really helpful.🙏🙏🙏
Electrifying content. Did somebody already made that joke?? Ok I am leaving
I am revolted by this pun.
Vicente Ortega Rubilar Damn, this comment is shocking.
some of those commenters are eel-informed
For eel?
I don't believe so, it's shocking on how many people make puns in the comments
Could you make a video about the catalan - spanish conflict? Greatings from Spain!
Awesome video as always. Thank you
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happy new year Ted ed!
@0:50 I know the fish by name:-) Gnathonemus petersii. Besides living in my aquarium, they live in Sewage treatment plant in Germany to test the water,cause they change voltage in Millivolt when water changes. And they are friendly :-)
You should update this video due to recent findings in Amazon's Jungle. New species of electric eel was found and it can discharge up to 950 volt. They named this eel as Electrophorus Voltai. Yay!!!
Dang how that boy handle it's own voltage?
"Schnauzenorgan" will be how I refer to my mouth from now on. As a German "Rein damit ins Schnauzenorgan" is insanely funny to me.
I love it..need more explorations.
It works like a capacitor.
Where are these fish when I need them to power my house 😂
do you know how many eels you would need?.... just pay the bill man
Continual Improvement at pond I think
i see u every where
Daniel Fame about 15
I found a website that sells electric eels as pets.
Thank you TED, very cool!
It is a very informative video thanks for this ....such an amazing and wonderful video
That's crazy, fish with superpowers!!
UNLIMITED POWAAAA !!!
this was so good, thanks
Great video - thanks:)
Who says electricity and water don't mix?
Alot of people say so because water is a bad conducter
redstone craft guy
But salt is a great conductor, and there's plenty in the sea
TheMegax Plus I think the guy already knows that, he did not say anything to contradict it.
It's the amps (the amount of current) to worry about. The voltage only tells half the story, which is the potential. If the resistance is high, it will negate the voltage and thus reduce the amperage. Fortunately for humans, the electric eel only emits 1 amp over a quick instant, so it's not deadly to us.
Yes, only 1 amp, huge voltage but low current just like a capacitor
I thought 0.1-0.2 amps were enough to cause death?
Could you please explain that in words a non scientist would understand? It really caught my interest!!
@@uliseshernandez9176 I believe 1 amp is needed to cause death, and then only if it crosses your heart.
I wonder if salt water plays a factor in conducting then electricity
The best channel so far ... and counting.. 😌😌
This video just has me all amped up.
Who remembers that electric fish in crash bandicoot 2 in the sewage tunnel??
Charles Darwin me, I hated that underwater mission tbh
It’s crazy how you can make electric underwater without killing the lake
I love your channel it's very educational
Good explanation
In jee advanced exam there was a problem with so many resistor and capacitor and an eel find the current in a particular loop
How do they not electrocute themselves? Easy. They were well trained at Xavier school for mutants
They were built for it
Lol
As far we know they probably were
their secret is, they always electrocuted..
They do, it's why they flinch when doing it
thank you so helpful
Shocking information! It hit me like a bolt of lightning!
I’m shocked
on your face
Pa da dushhh
He He
Electric eels are Sith Lords.
”Poweeeeer! Unlimited poweeeeeeeeer!!”
A Sith lawd?
Have you ever heard of the tragedy of Darth plagueis
Darth eller
Well explained
This is so cool!
When a male eel and a female eel like each other i can feel the electricity
What a shocking fact
Theres a spark
2:40 the moment you remember that german once was the language of scientists
The eel probably has a layer of cells around its body that can conduct electricity so it acts as a faraday cage for the fish,the electricity passes around the fish instead of through it.
I was taught that the eel's tail contains the potential gradient (anterior of tail = positive, posterior of tail = negative). All the eel's vital organs like its brain are at the front of the eel. When it 'powers up' to send shocks from its tail, it straightens out, and the current travels outward. You will see an eel sometimes bend in a U shape to avoid its head getting in the way of the current. If the current hit its brain, it would die. Electric eels can kill each other. In zoology they taught us that the pics of eels "biting & shocking prey simultaneously" are fake
_so intresannt_ *teded* _mein lieblingskanal_
This animation of the electric eel is so cute. Love to get one as a pet.
The real ones are kinda weird imo
See this is what I like about TED-Ed. I'm usually bored about science (I'm a world history teacher) but they make me care about cute electrically charged fishes.
Very electrifying!
Fascinating 😊
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You described the voltage of the fishes but not the amperage they produced. High voltage is nothing without amperage so it would've been nice to know that.
This is really amazing
electrifying fishess :D wonderful animation
Why the current will flow through the target fish instead flow through the surrounding water? Isn't the water's resistance is lower then fish's flesh?
That kind of animals generate electricity long time ago before humans discover it🤔 amazing.👏
thats was insightfull
Good job
In the time since this video came out an even more powerful Electric Eel was discovered in the Amazon. Electrophorus voltai is apparently capable of emitting jolts up to 860 volts and 1 ampere in strength! That’s 860 watts of muscle numbing energy!
that kills
Can I charge my computer with it or will I fEEL the pain
I knew mother nature created some crazy stuff but damn this is on another level
Who is this "mother nature" ??? A person that designed and intentionally made things?
@@braveconcepts
Allah is The Creator of everything. Glory be to Allah and exalted be He above what they say and describe!
@@sayedelghairb8640 shush we dont need no propaganda here
I have to get up early tomorrow.
But this is more important.
Good video and it anwsered a interesting question (and the German pronunciations made it even better)
_I know this from watching cartoons as a kid_
*_I KNOW THIS FROM WATCHING RICK AND MORTY_*
@@ben10inches I know this from wildkratts
Kid: ”Mom! I want a pikachu!”
Mom: “ We have pikachu at home, honey”
Pikachu at home:
do you even pokemon bro?
So cool!
Thank you
We genetically engineered rabbits with bio luminescent, now let's add eels genes to the rabbit.
There is no god.
pikachuuu
Alejandro Molina ...to humans* 😂
Johnny which means we’re totally free to do this!
Let's put eels genes at humans
Finally scientists have found an other source of alternative energy
I can’t believe it has taken me this long to develop a curiosity for this
thank you