Pls post the answer
Pls post the answer
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The German Zitteraale translates roughly to "{tremble/vibrate/shiver} eel"
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Guy: Dude, that skinny fish just bit me!!
Friend: It didn't even touch you, pussy.
Guy: I swear to God it got me.
Friend: Got you with what, its scary fish magic?
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This /r/AskHistorians post has a nice discussion on it. While there's little in the way of records for precolonial South American names for it, one person has found the example of arimna, "that which deprives of motion".
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Acoustic eels
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Spicy water snakes
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Electricity was actually named after the eels.
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Electricity was named after amber. (Because it has a visible electrostatic effect when rubbed with a cloth.)
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Pretty sure it was the eels.
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Spicy noodles.
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Tingly enemas
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Zap logs.
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Gyarados obviously
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Ouchy boys
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Danger eel
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Gymnotus electricus
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Probably something to do with lightning or stinging - as those concepts have been around much longer than humans have been around electric eels
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Snappy snakes
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Electricity was discovered around 600 bc, electric eels weren’t discovered til the 1740s (named in 1766). Natives in South America likely interacted with them, but we don’t have any records of what they called them. Most likely though we would’ve named them something to do with lightning if we hadn’t figured out electricity when we found them.
https://a-z-animals.com/blog/discover-what-electric-eels-called-before-electricity/
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/
Are you suggesting a blog posted on a-z-animals.com is not a reliable source for facts??
Shocked. I'm absolutely shocked.
It's quite likely they used to call them by a name similar to the one they call it now. It sounds nothing like "electric eel" though.
I love how things aren't "discovered" until white people see em. Even though like you pointed out, humans who actually lived in those regions were very well aware of them
Things are only discovered until documented and the information spread, it has nothing to do with race. In the same way Adam Savage said "the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down"
Oddly enough the scientific community doesn't color check properly recorded documents.
Hey everyone, check out this comment I discovered! It raises some good points! You're welcome!