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The shocking ways wild animals use electricity From the electric eel to the echidna, many animals rely on electric currents to communicate, find prey, and defend themselves. Electric eels (which are not true eels) can generate more than 800 volts to stun prey.Photograph by George Grall / NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION ByLavanya Sunkara Email An invisible force of nature, electricity is all around us. Humans generate weak electrical fields whenever we move our muscles, for instance. But some impressive animals have taken this power a step further, evolving the ability to communicate, defend themselves, and find food via electricity. Most of such creatures live in freshwater ecosystems, using electricity to compensate for their poor vision or inability to see in murky water. Approximately 350 species of fish including the notorious electric eel possess anatomical structures that can generate up to a whopping 860 volts of power. In comparison, a shock from your household outlet its abou

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