There is a long backstory to this post but if you want to see the question I'm asking just skip down to the last line,
I just read this paper and short summary of it about collective sensing in Peter's Elephantnose fish.
The researchers found that Peter's Elephantnose fish can have a more accurate and increased range of their sense of the environment when in a group by using their conspecifics' electric organ discharges (EOD).
This is similar to say I'm playing basketball and I can see through the eyes of my teammate simultaneously.
I find this very interesting.
My lab primarily works with fish that discharge sinusoid, wave-like EODs like BGKs and glass knife fish unlike Peter's Elephantnose that discharge pulse-like EODs.
Hence, I want to investigate if this collective sensing ability is found in fish with wave-like EODs like BGKs and glass knife fish.
If so, this is where I need Monsterfishkeepers' advice:
I want to see the competency/existence of collective sensing in social fish species and anti-social fish species.
So I am wondering if glass knife fish are social in nature and if BGKs are social in nature too?
I just read this paper and short summary of it about collective sensing in Peter's Elephantnose fish.
The researchers found that Peter's Elephantnose fish can have a more accurate and increased range of their sense of the environment when in a group by using their conspecifics' electric organ discharges (EOD).
This is similar to say I'm playing basketball and I can see through the eyes of my teammate simultaneously.
I find this very interesting.
My lab primarily works with fish that discharge sinusoid, wave-like EODs like BGKs and glass knife fish unlike Peter's Elephantnose that discharge pulse-like EODs.
Hence, I want to investigate if this collective sensing ability is found in fish with wave-like EODs like BGKs and glass knife fish.
If so, this is where I need Monsterfishkeepers' advice:
I want to see the competency/existence of collective sensing in social fish species and anti-social fish species.
So I am wondering if glass knife fish are social in nature and if BGKs are social in nature too?
