Motion Sensing Behaviour in Weakly Electric Fish

Weakly electric fish use of a self-generated electric field to probe their environment, this behaviour is known as electrolocation. This study investigated two aspects of electrolocation in two species of knifefish (Apteronotus leptorhynchus and Eigenmannia virescens). First, we characterized the ab...

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Main Author: Young, Colleen
Other Authors: Lewis, John
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30385
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-3473