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[–] Donkter 66 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, your article was pretty lazily written. IDK how they even got away with it. It took me about 5 seconds of googling to find that indigenous people in Venezuela called them "Arimna" or “something that deprives you of motion.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/09/electric-eel-three-species-what-a-shock/597709/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you suggesting a blog posted on a-z-animals.com is not a reliable source for facts??

Shocked. I'm absolutely shocked.

[–] Donkter 4 points 10 months ago

Right lol. This was more of a response pointing out that the other commenter in this thread who got down voted into oblivion was actually raising a good point.