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Emily Driscoll
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The Shocking Way Eels Attack!
Kenneth Catania at Vanderibilt University explores the surprising leaping behavior of electric eels. After noticing eels leaping in his lab and hearing a story of leaping eels by explorere Alexander von Humboldt, Catania used a crocodile head and zombie arm to see how eels use this unique attack strategy.
00:00 Intro
00:13 Ken Catania studies mysterious animals
00:28 First witnessing eels leaping
00:56 Leaping Eels story by explorer Alexander von Humboldt
01:19 Fishing with horses with Humboldt
02:04 Skeptical of eels hunting horses
02:14 Electric eels are not related to other eels
02:28 The eel's body is electric organs
02:48 Comparing eel hunting to a taser
03:18 Why would an eel leap and attack?
03:28 Using Crocodile heads and zombie arms to study leaps
04:02 Electric current during eel leaps
04:24 Leap attacks are not hunting behaviors
04:55 The best defense is a good offense
05:05 Credits
This video was originally made in 2016. It was updated in 2025.
00:00 Intro
00:13 Ken Catania studies mysterious animals
00:28 First witnessing eels leaping
00:56 Leaping Eels story by explorer Alexander von Humboldt
01:19 Fishing with horses with Humboldt
02:04 Skeptical of eels hunting horses
02:14 Electric eels are not related to other eels
02:28 The eel's body is electric organs
02:48 Comparing eel hunting to a taser
03:18 Why would an eel leap and attack?
03:28 Using Crocodile heads and zombie arms to study leaps
04:02 Electric current during eel leaps
04:24 Leap attacks are not hunting behaviors
04:55 The best defense is a good offense
05:05 Credits
This video was originally made in 2016. It was updated in 2025.
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The eel even understands how electricity works. by raising up from the water, mor currents will be used to attach
Wow
Tennis could've got this title, but because of the unfair advantage of the server, they put fuzz on the ball So badminton deserves it
Can an eel be used as a capacitor? How many Farads is an eel?
I live in Colorado Springs where his work was covered up by resident neighborhoods...
Way better than the Indian boat of milk and honey 😂
Haha the "shocking" way
Ohh pretty interesting offensive behavior
STILL it's for women. A girl's play.
What’s a New Yorker’s worst nightmare during an earthquake?........Spilling their $8 latte! Great video with interesting scientific facts about the NYC earthquake.
mustache man
So much for solid concrete keeping everything in place! Good presentation of data about the fault lines in the NYC area and how an earthquake could affect the city.
Stone cold facts! Didn't know about the cold rocks - very interesting!
for people saying it has no hitting mechanics. no it has there are techniques and forms just to use it more effectively
China,,Japan, Malaysia & Denmark are world's besttt!!!
Imagine how fast Goodminton is.. wow...
badminton is also one of the populat sports her in the philippines
it reaches the fastest speed initially but slows down a lot. its the fastest because of its pace
Its all about the Definition of what speed? We only look at the speed of the ball . That means shooting is the fastest sport. I would understand under fast the number of actions.
pfftt... try table tennis
and imagine GOODminton rn holy fuckk
In my opinion there is a glorious contradiction within badminton in that the sport, at the entry level, is very easy to pick-up and play and it is this same simplicity which, at the elite level, makes the standard so breath-takingly high that the top players are extraordinary athletes with exceptional specialization and skill.
Wow! So much info. Thank you! He was so amazing.
Nah speedminton is faster
it's a good video with some fact-based explanations, and i especially enjoyed the discussion of smash mechanics and geometry, but you miss addressing a some key points. first, you dont exactly say what you mean by the 'fastest' racket sport. i have played a lot of baseball, tennis and badminton, and have done a lot of collegiate wrestling. i would say baseball is slow, tennis is moderately fast, wrestling is very fast, and badminton is super-fast. i include baseball and wrestling in this comparison because i dont think of the speed of the sport as necessarily connected to the speed of the ball or projectile. to me, it has to do more with the kind of athleticism required to play effectively. baseball requires very fast movements occasionally but not in any sustained way. tennis requires serious cardio-pulmonary fitness and muscular fitness and involves a lot of running and changing direction. wrestling requires the highest level of physical fitness, and a lot of speed and explosiveness, but a lot of strength goes into close technical contests that involve a lot of strength where it kinda looks like nothing is happening. badminton also requires the highest level of physical fitness and there are consistent demands for extremely explosive movements and cat-like speed and reactions almost constantly despite frequent changes of pace, and all of this is perhaps rivaled only by boxing, MMA or fencing. but these are just my impressions. to someone else they may seem absurdly wrong. what about ping pong, which requires a lot of athleticism and seems very fast to me? so that is problem 1, you dont say what you mean by 'fastest' problem 2 is that if you are only talking about the projectile speed of different racket sports, you dont say what those are. what is it for tennis? racketball? squash? badminton? (i have left out the pickle thing because it doesnt deserve any attention and i am thrilled to alienate anyone who plays that recently invented so-called sport that is essentially the morris dancing of the sports world). you dont even say what the top shuttle speed is in badminton-- at one point you mention a number, but that is not the top speed of the shuttle problem 3 is that, like most people who talk about shuttle speed in badminton, you mention nothing about what you mean by shuttle speed. shuttle velocity decays very quickly in badminton. the difference between smashing all the way from the back line and smashing from 30cm forward of there is huge in serious play. for this reason at least in men's doubles play, we rarely smash with 100% power from the back line. we usually try move our opponents and vary the attack and force a lift that is a little shy of the back line, and then we unleash the full artillery power. so when you talk about shuttle speed, how are you measuring that? is at the moment of impact? halfway through its flight? velocity when it reaches the defender? velocity when it reaches the floor? average velocity throughout its flight? it was mentioned that the shuttle can retain 80% of its velocity. what does that mean? in what type of shot? do you mean in a jump smash? none of this is clear problem 4 is that you dont compare the decay of shuttle velocity with decay in velocity of projectiles in other racket sports. tennis uses a fuzzy ball that has some decay over the length of the court, but it is not nearly as much decay as a shuttle has. that is why when you watch some of the faster men serving in tennis, on first serve you sometimes have aces that are pretty much unreturnable by anyone simply because their high velocity does not give even the fastest and most skilled players nearly enough time to react. again. the tennis ball is not as fast as the shuttle coming off the racket, but there is much less decay in its velocity than there is with a shuttle. racketballs are extremely fast, probably never as fast as shuttles, but there is no appreciable decay until it hits a wall so no, while i appreciate your video, it is not 'clear' that badminton is the fastest racket sport, and i doubt anyone who says that can say with any precision what they mean. if you just mean the max shuttle velocity off the racket, taken by itself that is not a meaningful metric (and, again, you didnt even say what that is). those of us who play badminton seriously for sure understand the sport as being very fast, but this is an overall impression coming from a variety of inputs including shuttle speed, racket head speed, the size of the court, the time required to reply to your opponent's shots, explosive physicality required, and other factors
he married a pigeon and die poor because his mental state was deteriorating
The full video goes into further detail about Tesla - you can watch here: th-cam.com/video/Cd-RFlBM00U/w-d-xo.html
Hi
Fascinating innovator. Never knew his retirement was determined by a pigeon!
Every genius comes with a side of ‘wait, what?!!'
Informative video about a fascinating man. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!
Excellent content, great investigative journalism video
i can smash it super quick,,, no 1 my racquet is activated @ 41lbs .... and on the smash i break the second chain, folding the shuttle inwards on itself... so I shape it like a bullet.... thats how you smash it quick!
why this video has 144k views but he or she has 581 sub 💀
soon cockroaches will be bulletproof
Fastest sport. F1 driver: hold my steering
read the title again 👍
Fastest sport. Literally any American: hold my gun But for real though read the title again
What about table tennis
You can argue that it is faster, badminton have higher top speed while table tennis have fast speed consistently.
Americans? Nah, only Asians lol
not even mentioning squash is a crime
Table tennis don't forget about❤
Fuck cockroaches I hate them
Interesting that the filthy things come from filthy countries.... Not a surprise though.
Actually the fastest sport is table tennis I think because of its insane smashes it’s hard to play
is it some kinda thread to the world?!
talk about thd average speed, its not the fastest sport nor fastest paced
Read title again, fastest racket sport
Very cool
Cool
If you played badminton outside when there’s small wind it becomes a nightmare for that team the wind is blowing
This would make a great speech!
I farm madagascar roaches, i got about 30p adults, cool info
Bro as someone who has won a badminton tournament i am loving this justified glazing