The real deal on the electric eel

[jmckennon]

I have been racking my barin for quite sometime now trying to understand the phenomena that is the electric eel. I understand where the charge comes from within the eel, but how exactly does the eel avoid shocking itself?

 

[pallidin]

Here you go:


http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/show/2008.02.04-1/