Electrolocation (weakly-electric fish)

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Neuroethology subtree

Weakly-electric fish (Apteronotus mormyrid) emit EOD electric-organ-discharge and detect distortions to identify objects + prey; Lissmann 1958 discovered; spatial-resolution to mm.

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