All-Alive-O!

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 29, 31 January 1930, Page 33

All-Alive-O!

IX electric eels have lately arrived at the Philadelphia Zoological Garden, and the superintendent says that they are literally the most shocking creatures that have ever come under his care. The creatures are about six feet long and about five feet of their length contains an electric current generating apparatus, which senerates enough electricity to bowl over a horse. It is inadvisable, therefore, unless properly insulated, to handle them from the wrong end. Other tricks that they can do include lighting an electr°2 bulb, running toy trains, or work an _ egg-bedter, provided, of course, that they are properly attached. In their natural state in Trinidad, after they*have exhausted their batteries, they retire in a rock and rest’ up while the electrical equipment is being renewed. The matter of recharging remains a mystery, and it is for the purpose of investigating their sources of energy and their method of storing it, that they have been sent to the Philadelphia Zoo.