There are some fish which give electric shocks. The most wonderful of these is the electric eel. When this fish is hungry it gives one of these shocks to any fish which happens to be in the neighbourhood and stuns it. The electric discharge is enough to shock a strong man or a large animal.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20470, 23 November 1934, Page 1
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