What is electroception?

Electroeration is a biological ability to create or detect electrical charges. It is most common in ocean animals due to excellent water ability to perform electricity. Animal examples with electrically include sharks, rays, eels and weak-electric fish. Monotremem, including Echidnas and Platypes, are the only mammals who have the ability. In electrical eels, it is even used as a high -cost weapon. Lightning bugs, despite their name, do not have electroception. This Amazon freshwater predator is not really an eel, but a knife or a gymnotorm. Gymnotiforms are fish lines that have developed to use bioelectric and electroception. In addition to the electrical eel of the Ghoj, the Black Ghost ( Apteronotus albifrons ), glass knives ( eigenmannia virescens ) and tiger knives ( Gymnotus carrapo ). Electric eel, the strongest gymnnotiforms, have about 10 volts electrical fields. The effect continues during sleep. For the hunter or explosion of self -self -madeAny can reach the field voltage of up to 600 V. It easily kills small fish in the area.

Electrical eel are relatively large, growing up to 2.5 m (8 ft) and weigh 25 kg (55 pounds). To create a charge, they use their Sachs organ, a pile of electroplaques. Electroplaque is cells similar to discs stacked on each other to create an additive charge.

ATP-O-in transport proteins pump positive sodium and potassium ions from the cell, creating a negative charge that corresponds to electrification. The nucleus of the neurons in the brain called the core of the pacemaker when prey or threat is observed, releases acetylcholin, which stimulates the cells to "fire". The basic principle of activation is the same as in muscle cells.

Any fish or shark that lives in confused water has something to get from another sense. As a result, many fish are slightly electrocertive. It turned out that sharks may be stimulated to attackFor mere handling the electric field of water and there is no presence of visible prey or blood.