Can electric eels kill each other with their own electricity?

An electric eel can not only kill other electric eels with its electricity. An electric eel can kill itself with its own electricity! Electric eels have to be very careful in the way they bend their bodies when the charge up! Electric eels do shock themselves, occasionally! Most of the electric eels body is just tail. read more

While it's unclear why an eel is able to shock and sometimes electrocute – that is, kill something with the shock – other fish, fowl and amphibians without delivering fatal voltage to its own body, there are a few theories. read more

Nevertheless, the current discharged into their smaller bodies is much larger proportionally. For example, a prey 10 times smaller in length than an eel is about 1,000 times smaller in volume. Therefore, the small animals close to the eel get shocked, rather than the discharging eel itself. read more