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Re: Dr. Clayton Forrester's Science Roundup
Now THIS is a totally awesome discovery:
That article carried a link to the Science article: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6214/1231
Now THIS is a totally awesome discovery:
It's a stunning discovery: Electric eels don’t just “zap” their prey. They use their powers to remote-control them, too.....A new study published in the journal Science reveals the eels can “remote-control” their prey.
The electric eel is virtually blind, and they swim in murky waters. So they use their finely tuned electric senses to detect “echoes” from a pair of low-voltage pulses. Yes, like radar.....They then home in on their target, until they come within range.
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Experiments have shown that the eel has tuned its electric effect to trigger its prey’s nervous system. It hijacks the movement of every muscle in a fish’s body through mimicking the signals carried by its neural network.....This includes revealing the prey’s location (in the same way your arm would flex upward when touching a live wire) and smothering any reflex to run.
The electric eel is virtually blind, and they swim in murky waters. So they use their finely tuned electric senses to detect “echoes” from a pair of low-voltage pulses. Yes, like radar.....They then home in on their target, until they come within range.
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Experiments have shown that the eel has tuned its electric effect to trigger its prey’s nervous system. It hijacks the movement of every muscle in a fish’s body through mimicking the signals carried by its neural network.....This includes revealing the prey’s location (in the same way your arm would flex upward when touching a live wire) and smothering any reflex to run.
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