An adolescent brownish ghost knifefish
ProfDr Rüdiger Krahe
The rivers of the exotic Americas hum and also snap with electrical areas created by knifefish. The fish usage electrical discharges to browse their dirty environments for food and also to interact with companions. But brand-new study recommends these electrical signals might likewise be utilized to create and also preserve an innovative caste.
Brown ghost knifefish (Apteronotus leptorhynchus) belong to electrical eels, yet as opposed to producing effective shocks, the fish constantly create weak electrical areas. Still, when Till Raab, a neuroethologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, and also his …