Talk:Amp Eel/@comment-26431349-20160318005649/@comment-70.69.169.161-20160320130651

As the mouth parts and structure of most fish is made out of cartillage, the bite force that they are able to generate is actually fairly limited by comparison to most terrestrial animal's bite force where their mouths are made out of much harder, and therefore studerier, calcified bone structures. For instance, the bite pressure for a 21-foot long great white shark is estimated to reach up to 4,000 lbs per square inch (psi) while the average saltwater crocodile (a much smaller predator) was measured to have a 3,700 psi bite force. That's not to suggest that a bite from a creature like the shocker wouldn't hurt like hell (45% really isn't trivial) but that perhaps it's closer to reasonable than you might think.