{"id":4716,"date":"2013-04-09T15:10:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T13:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=4716"},"modified":"2013-10-16T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T14:34:07","slug":"a-caiman-killed-by-an-electric-eel-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/09\/a-caiman-killed-by-an-electric-eel-video\/","title":{"rendered":"A caiman killed by an electric eel (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <em>jacar\u00e9<\/em> (A Brazilian caiman) is a powerful hunter, but it may sometimes encounter a more fearful adversary. In the video clip below, a Brazilian fisherman caught an electric eel (a fresh water fish from the Amazon looking like our eels but with two important differences: It can reach more than 2m \/6 feet and can produce more than 600V of electric voltage <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electric_eel\">[W]<\/a>). Gone collecting a knife, the fisherman left if on the river bank. When he comes back, he finds a caiman checking the eel and he immediately starts the camera.<\/p>\n<p><center><object classid='clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000' id='telegraph_player_377405' width='600' height='325' codebase='http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/get\/flashplayer\/current\/swflash.cab'><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/template\/utils\/ooyala\/telegraph_player.swf'\/><param name='scale' value='noscale'\/><param name='bgcolor' value='#000000'\/><param name='salign' value='LT'\/><param name='wmode' value='window'\/><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always'\/><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'\/><param name='FlashVars' value='embedCode=tha2l3MTrpUvQ6baxNykYpnaOvSDKhRI&#038;autoplay=0&#038;offSite=true&#038;showTD=true&#038;thruParamDartEnterprise=site%3Dnews%26section%3Dnews\/newsvideo\/weirdnewsvideo%26pt%3Dvid%26pg%3D\/news\/newsvideo\/weirdnewsvideo\/8206677\/Electric-eel-kills-caiman.html%26spaceid%3Dvid%26ls%3Df%26transactionID%3D1012180738000600%26psize%3D620x415%26view%3Dviral%26view%3Dviral'\/><embed type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/template\/utils\/ooyala\/telegraph_player.swf' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/go\/getflashplayer' menu='false' quality='high' play='false' name='telegraph_player_377405' height='325' width='600' scale='noscale' bgcolor='#000000' salign='LT' wmode='window' allowScriptAccess='always' allowFullScreen='true' flashvars='embedCode=tha2l3MTrpUvQ6baxNykYpnaOvSDKhRI&#038;autoplay=1&#038;offSite=true&#038;showTD=true&#038;thruParamDartEnterprise=site%3Dnews%26section%3Dnews\/newsvideo\/weirdnewsvideo%26pt%3Dvid%26pg%3D\/news\/newsvideo\/weirdnewsvideo\/8206677\/Electric-eel-kills-caiman.html%26spaceid%3Dvid%26ls%3Df%26transactionID%3D1012180738000600%26psize%3D620x415%26view%3Dviral%26view%3Dviral'><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, after a short observation time, the caiman decides to eat some. But immediately after biting a bit, the caiman suffers intense convulsions and dies in only a few seconds while the fisherman cannot believe what he sees (he calls his friend to go and see something he never saw in his life).<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newsvideo\/weirdnewsvideo\/8206677\/Electric-eel-kills-caiman.html\">The Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A jacar\u00e9 (A Brazilian caiman) is a powerful hunter, but it may sometimes encounter a more fearful adversary. In the video clip below, a Brazilian fisherman caught an electric eel (a fresh water fish from the Amazon looking like our eels but with two important differences: It can reach more than 2m \/6 feet and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}