Science News | Testing a bottlenosed dolphin’s electroreception | Science News @ScienceNewsMag | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
A bottlenosed dolphin primed to respond to an electric stimulus places its snout in the experimental apparatus. If the dolphin sensed an electric field, it would swim away quickly. If not, it would stay put for several seconds. A new study indicates that bottlenose dolphins can pick up on currents the scale of microvolts, similar to the weak electrical pulses their prey emit.
Read more: sciencenews.org/article/bottlenosed-dolphins-sense-electric-fields-hunt-prey
Video: Tim Hüttner
A bottlenosed dolphin primed to respond to an electric stimulus places its snout in the experimental apparatus. If the dolphin sensed an electric field, it would swim away quickly. If not, it would stay put for several seconds. A new study indicates that bottlenose dolphins can pick up on currents the scale of microvolts, similar to the weak electrical pulses their prey emit.
Read more: sciencenews.org/article/bottlenosed-dolphins-sense-electric-fields-hunt-prey
Video: Tim Hüttner
