Author: The Naked Scientists

Some fish, it turns out, can “beam” sensory information to other nearby fish to expand their detection range. Working with African electric fish – also known as elephantnose fish, the team, at Columbia University, discovered that the animals use electrical receptors in their bodies to detect external signals as electrical images that are then shared themselves, allowing them to see things. as a group and farther than they could manage alone. Sannia Farrukh heard from the head of the study, Nathaniel Sawtell…Nathaniel – We created a computer model of the electric fish and its field, and then we could put…