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As always, the animals are able to adapt. Prof Montgomery was able to show that the nerves that detect the electromagnetism are able to detect and cancel out ‘normal’ activity. This means that the shark doesn’t notice its own electric field and doesn’t react every time it moves a muscle, but it can still sense new things. Figure 3.12: Andrij Z. Horodysky, PhD. Used with permission from Andrij Horodysky. Photo by Stjani Ben (May 2015; Thingvallavatn, Iceland). CC BY 4.0. Sensory ecology focuses on the study of animal sensory systems to understand how environmental information is perceived, how this information is processed, and how this affects interactions between the animal and its environment (Dangles et al. 2009). The stimulus-response model (Figure 3.2) describes the basic reactions from the stimulus, through receptors to the central nervous system and brain, which are then transmitted to neurons and organs that respond due to detection of the stimulus. A stimulus is any change in the environment (either external or internal) that is detected by a receptor. It may be a predator threat, an easy prey item, or a potential mate. Receptors transform environmental stimuli into electrical nerve impulses. These impulses are then transmitted via neurons to the central nervous system and brain where decision making occurs. When a response is selected (consciously or unconsciously), the signal is transmitted via neurons to effectors. Effectors are organs (either muscles or glands) that produce a response to a stimulus. A response is a change in the organism resulting from the detection of a stimulus. Figure 3.2: Diagram of the connections in the stimulus-response model in fish, which displays a stimulus, odor receptor (nares), sensory neuron, relay neuron, motor neuron, brain, effector, and response. Long description. Popper, A.N.; C. Platt (1993). "Inner ear and lateral line". The Physiology of Fishes. CRC Press (1st ed).

Senses of smell and taste are well developed in fish, and there are many applications of that information in formulating artificial feeds and baits for fishing. Simpson, S. D., P. L. Munday, M. L. Wittenrich, R. Manassa, D. L. Dixson, M. Gagliano, and H. Y. Yan. 2011. Ocean acidification erodes a crucial auditory behavior in a marine fish. Global Change Biology 7:917–920. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0293. Human activities may interfere with some sensory systems of fish, and many gaps in our understanding limit our ability to predict the influence of global changes. Not only will this sensory app delight your kids, it will also provide increased educational benefits. From the early stages of your babies development, they are constantly learning and absorbing information around them, they begin to see, touch, feel, hear and understand how their interactions are affecting the environment around them. Your baby will begin to learn that touching the screen will cause bubbles to be created. Your child can drag your finger across the screen to create a pattern of bubbles. Your newborn can place their hands on the screen to cause lots of bubbles to be created at all points on the screen that they are touching. Among teleosts, the electric catfish uses electroreception to navigate through muddy waters. These fish make use of spectral changes and amplitude modulation to determine factors such shape, size, distance, velocity, and conductivity. The abilities of the electric fish to communicate and identify sex, age, and hierarchy within the species are also made possible through electric fields. EF gradients as low as 5nV/cm can be found in some saltwater weakly electric fish. [27] Several basal bony fishes, including the paddlefish ( Polyodon spathula), possess electroreceptors. The paddlefish hunts plankton using thousands of tiny passive electroreceptors located on its extended snout, or rostrum. The paddlefish is able to detect electric fields that oscillate at 0.5–20Hz, and large groups of plankton generate this type of signal. [28] [29]

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Figure 3.9: Diagram of the taste buds in fish. Herbert Vincent and Herbert Wilbur. 1939. Public domain. https://flic.kr/p/wsuopv.

Dunayer, Joan, "Fish: Sensitivity Beyond the Captor's Grasp," The Animals' Agenda, July/August 1991, pp. 12–18 Draper, A. M., and M. J. Weissburg. 2019. Impacts of global warming and elevated CO2 on sensor behavior in predator-prey interactions: a review and synthesis. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:72. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00072. Fish have excellent systems for hearing as well as a lateral line for detection of far-field water movements. Fish utilize the lateral line to detect movements of prey, predators, currents, and objects in the water. If there is any difference between the relative movements of the body of the fish and the movements of the surrounding water, it will be sensed by the lateral line (Mogdans 2019). In this way, the fish knows if it is swimming in highly turbulent or still waters. The lateral line is also very sensitive to water vibrations from great distances underwater, so this sixth sense is sometimes called the far-field hearing (Figure 3.5). Figure 3.5: Sound level in decibels plotted as a function of distance from the source. Long description.Zimmerman, T., Smith, J., Paradiso, J., Allport, D., & Gershenfeld, N. (1995). Applying Electric Field Sensing to Human-Computer Interfaces. IEEE SIG . Hearing is an important sensory system for most species of fish. For example, in the family Batrachoididae, males use their swim bladders to make advertisement calls which females use to localize males. Hearing threshold and the ability to localize sound sources are reduced underwater, in which the speed of sound is faster than in air. Underwater hearing is by bone conduction, and localization of sound appears to depend on differences in amplitude detected by bone conduction. [7] As such, aquatic animals such as fish have a more specialized hearing apparatus that is effective underwater. [8] Together, fish use these senses to inspect the world around them. Imagine an angler tossing a lure nearby. The fish will feel the vibrations caused by the waves moving from the lure. With wide-angle vision, the fish moves toward the lure to inspect it. With an acute sense of smell, it detects no signal that suggests it’s living. In some cases, the fish will grab a bait, taste it with sensitive taste buds, and reject it as nonfood. If captured, the fish has many sensory structures in the skin to detect touch and temperature changes. Why might it be a good thing that fish have a keen sense of taste and do not consume everything that enters their mouth? 3.7 Electrosensory and Magnetosensory Capabilities Figure 3.10: Pores with ampullae of Lorenzini in snout of Tiger Shark. Graham, Michael (1941). "Sense of Hearing in Fishes". Nature. 147 (3738): 779. Bibcode: 1941Natur.147..779G. doi: 10.1038/147779b0.

Nilsson, G. E. 1996. Brain and body oxygen requirements of Gnathonemus petersii, a fish with an exceptionally large brain. Journal of Experimental Biology 199:603–607.Andrij Z. Horodysky, previously Associate Professor at Hampton University, is Research Fish Biologist at NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center. He is a broadly trained organismal fisheries ecologist with research interests centered on the ecophysiology, behavior, and conservation biology of commercially and recreationally important estuarine, coastal, and pelagic marine fish. His research investigations use comparative interdisciplinary approaches that integrate field, laboratory, and specimen-based techniques with tools ranging in scale from microscopes to satellites. Most fish possess highly developed sense organs. Nearly all daylight fish have color vision that is at least as good as a human's (see vision in fish). Many fish also have chemoreceptors that are responsible for extraordinary senses of taste and smell. Although they have ears, many fish may not hear very well. Most fish have sensitive receptors that form the lateral line system, which detects gentle currents and vibrations, and senses the motion of nearby fish and prey. [1] Sharks can sense frequencies in the range of 25 to 50 Hz through their lateral line. [2] Liao, J. C. 2007. A review of fish swimming mechanics and behaviour in altered flows. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 362:1973–1993.

Stewart, T. A., and M. E. Hale. 2013. First description of a musculoskeletal linkage in an adipose fin: innovations for active control in a primitively passive appendage. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280: 20122159. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2159.Fish may seem alien to us because they evolved in water and their senses are more adapted to an aquatic environment. Yet, like humans, fish depend on many senses for survival. Vision is a dominant sense in fish, and we humans can appreciate the capability for depth perception and color discrimination. But what happens when you attempt to see underwater? Your vision is very blurry underwater. Somehow fish solved the problem of seeing underwater. Sensory capabilities of fish are adapted to accommodate the special characteristics of the aquatic environment. Different fish to choose from, all with varying contrasting colors, you can also choose multiple fish types to play with at the same time. Now including seahorses and turtles! Meyer CG; Holland KN; Papastamatiou YP (2005). "Sharks can detect changes in the geomagnetic field". Journal of the Royal Society, Interface. 2 (2): 129–30. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2004.0021. PMC 1578252. PMID 16849172.