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SANDY, Utah, Dec. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Living Planet Aquarium is shocking visitors with its Christmas display which uses an electric eel to flash the lights on its tree. A Christmas display in the "Journey To South America" gallery is blinking by using the energy generated by an electric eel in a nearby tank. "We took the voltage produced by the eel via stainless steel electrodes and used it to power a sequencer," said Terry Smith, Project Manager at Cache Valley Electric....
A novel way to ramp up biodiversity Bruce Carlson stands next to a fish tank in his lab, holding a putty colored Radio Shack amplifier connected to two wires whose insulation has been stripped. At the bottom of the tank a nondescript little fish lurks in a sawed-off section of PVC pipe.Carlson sticks the two bare wires into the tank. Suddenly we hear a rapid-fire pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. The pops, which are surprisingly loud, sound rather like the static on an old-fashioned tube radio...
An aquarium in Utah is lighting its Christmas tree with the help of an electric eel. Electrodes in the water pick up the eel's voltage, powering the tree's multi-colored lights. Sandy, UT (PRWEB) December 22, 2010 The Living Planet Aquarium is shocking visitors with its Christmas display which uses an Electric eel to flash the lights on its tree. A Christmas display in the 'Journey To South America' gallery is blinking by using the energy generated by an electric eel in a nearby tank....
Just as people plug in to computers, smart phones and electric outlets to communicate, electric fish communicate by quickly plugging special channels into their cells to generate electrical impulses, University of Texas at Austin researchers have discovered.The fish generate electric fields to navigate, fight and attract mates in murky streams and rivers throughout Central and South America. They do so at night, while trying to avoid predators such as catfish that sense the electric...
Engineers long have known that great ideas can be lifted from Mother Nature, but a new paper* by researchers at Yale University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) takes it to a cellular level. Applying modern engineering design tools to one of the basic units of life, they argue that artificial cells could be built that not only replicate the electrical behavior of electric eel cells but in fact improve on them. Artificial versions of the eel's electricity...
Male fish can amp up their electric fields to woo females and intimidate rivals, research now reveals. A number of fish can generate electric fields. Relatively few such electric fish pack strong enough jolts to defend themselves or stun prey - most just use their electrical discharges to help navigate the water or communicate in the dark. One weakly electric fish is the nocturnal gymnotiform fish (Brachyhypopomus pinnicaudatus), a toothless fish native to the Amazon...
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The Electric eel, Electrophorus electricus, is a species of fish. It is capable of generating powerful electric shocks, which it uses for both hunting and self-defense. It is a top predator in its South American range. Despite its name it is not an eel at all but rather a knifefish. Taxonomy The species is so unusual that it has been reclassified several times. Originally it was given its own family Electrophoridae, and then placed to a genus of Gymnotidae alongside Gymnotus....
The Black Ghost knifefish, Apteronotus albifrons, is a tropical fish belonging to the ghost knifefish family (Apteronotidae). They originate in South America in the Amazon Basin in Peru and from Venezuela through Paraguay in the Paraná Rivers. They are sometimes found in aquaria. The fish is all black except for two white rings on its tail. It moves mainly by undulating a long fin on its underside. It will grow to a maximum length of 20 in (50 cm). The Black Ghost knifefish natively...
