Dolphins have a feel for electric fields

The bottlenose dolphin’s keen ‘electroreception’ sense might help it to locate buried prey and navigate the seas.

Bottlenose dolphins can detect weak electric fields, which helps them to find prey buried in the sand and avoid predators¹.

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Nature 624, 11 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03750-8

Hüttner, T., von Fersen, L., Miersch, L. & Denhardt, G. J. Exp. Biol. 226, jeb245845 (2023).
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