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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Are electric eels actually electric? How can an eel generate electricity and why isn't it a hazard to itself?
gpt
Yes they produce electricity. They have several specialized organs that make up most of its body allowing it to generate both low and high voltages. 

It produces it the same way every other living thing produces electricity, the difference is size. Your cells are powered by tiny little AAA batteries, an electric eel has them all hooked up to be like a transformer. 

It's not a hazard to itself because it is generating the electricity and it is dispersing through the water. Electricity is going out, not in.