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During his voyage to the Orinoco river around 1800, Alexander von Humboldt reported communal attack responses in electric eels, and their power to stun prey as large as horses and mules by electric discharges. (He knew about the then recent discoveries concerning the nature of electricity, in which strong electric fish, such as the electric eel, took an instrumental part; Wu 1984; Zimmermann 1985.) Mutual attraction among electric eels when attacking prey and feeding was observed in wading pools (Cox 1938; Bullock 1969).
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Kramer, B. (1990). Communicating with Electric Organ Discharges. In: Electrocommunication in Teleost Fishes. Zoophysiology, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84026-5_5
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