What is a sea snake?

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What is a sea snake? Electric eels are a type of marine fish, known as Electrophorus Electricus, and their popular name is electric eels.

It is considered a fish family, although its shape is close to snakes.
And these snakes can generate large electrical energy up to nearly 600 volts and more.
Therefore, its electric shocks may be fatal in most cases.
And therefore it is considered one of the predators widely spread in the South American continent.

The environment in which the sea snake lives

The original and optimal habitat for the electric water eel is the northern region of the South American continent, specifically in the Amazon and Orinoco rivers.
Where they are muddy rivers, and there are snakes that occur electrical discharge.
It is one of the types of fish as it belongs to the carp and slues family.
About five hundred species.
However, the most famous and most capable of discharging electricity are these tremors that paralyze their prey and prevent it from moving by causing muscle spasms.
These snakes use electrical discharge to hunt prey.
Communicate with each other, and protect themselves, and defend their survival.

The discovery of the electric eel is credited to both scientists (Alexander von Humboldt) and (Aimee Bon plan) when they were exploring forests in the South American continent.
This was in the year 1800 AD, where they spent nearly five years in this research.
Arrived at Calabozo on the way to the Orinoco River.
To discover the swamps full of these snakes.
these snakes hit them with electric charges and to a very large degree.
Alexander states that his joints lost sensation for two consecutive days due to the impact of these charges, due to his standing on them.
He wrote an article eight years later documenting what he saw.
what he knew about these snakes and stated that they had decimated many horses because of these electric strikes.
This snake has a somewhat strange mechanism in its use of electricity.
as it was found that it can control the degree of strength of the electric current that rushes from it.
Where he can send a weak electric current if he wants to keep an animal away from him, and also if he wants to kill him, he sends him a strong electric current.
But if he only wants to determine the location of the enemy animal in relation to him, then he sends it a weak electric current, to return to it.