The shocking truth of leaping eels.

INTRO: New research has validated a 200 year-old story that electric eels can leap out of water and shock a horse to death. Ben Gruber reports. STORY: This is a behavior that hasn’t been witnessed in more than 200 years - eels leaping out of water to attack. A series of experiments at Vanderbilt University have proven that an account made by Alexander von Humboldt, a 19th century biologist, was indeed fact not fiction.