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There's a reason you won't find electric eels at your local petting zoo:
你在當地的寵物動物園找不到電鰻是有原因的：
these fierce creatures can release over 800 volts of electricity!
這些兇猛的生物可以釋放超過800伏特的電流！
That's gotta hurt. But how are these powerful shocks made?
人被電到肯定會受傷。但這些強大的衝擊是如何產生的呢？
Electricity is a big part of an eel's make up—literally.
電是鰻魚的主要組成部分——真的。
An eel's vital organs are all tightly packed in at the front of its body.
鰻魚的重要器官都緊緊地擠在身體的前部。
The rest of the eel—about eighty percent of its total length!
剩下的部分——大約是它整個身長的80%！
—is dedicated to three electricity-producing organs.
那裡有三個發電的器官。
The two biggest of these organs generate high-voltage shocks,
其中兩個最大的器官會產生高壓衝擊，
which the eel uses to hunt or scare away predators.
鰻魚用它來捕食或嚇跑捕食者。
The third organ, at the back of the eel, creates small electric pulses,
第三個器官在電鰻的後部，產生小的電脈衝，
letting the eel communicate and navigate its murky home.
幫助鰻魚在黑暗的家裡交流和遊走。
All three organs rely on modified muscle cells called electrocytes.
這三種器官都依賴於被稱為電細胞的改良肌肉細胞。
These cells are basically miniature batteries: they store and produce electricity.
這些細胞基本上是微型電池：它們儲存並產生電能。
The cells work in sync. When one cell discharges a current, all the others do too.
這些細胞是同步工作的。當一個細胞放電時，所有其他細胞也放電。