{"id":4390,"date":"2015-10-22T10:31:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T14:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2015-10-23T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T19:47:35","slug":"unlocking-the-secrets-of-electric-eels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-electric-eels\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the secrets of electric eels"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nr_9Y0hit4M\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> \r\n <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Videos of the electric eels in the experiment are available <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Nr_9Y0hit4M\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-X8STIP1WLM\"> and <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/56szbzCKuts\">here<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-X8STIP1WLM\">. (Video credit: Kenneth Catania)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Electric eels use their high-voltage discharge not only to stun their prey, but to also to track it before attacking, according to new research. The eels are able to track prey in this manner without the use of other senses such as vision or scent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These results indicate that the hunting behaviour of electric eels is more sophisticated than has previously been thought, according to the researchers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2015\/151020\/ncomms9638\/full\/ncomms9638.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature Communications\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>October 20<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kenneth Catania, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, U.S.A.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videos of the electric eels in the experiment are available here, and here. (Video credit: Kenneth Catania) Electric eels use their high-voltage discharge not only to stun their prey, but to also to track it before attacking, according to new research. The eels are able to track prey in this manner without the use of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,917],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-18O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4404,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/4404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}