Weakly electric fish produce electric signals (electric organ discharges, EODs) with a specialised electric organ creating an electric field around their body. Objects within this field alter the EOD-induced current at epidermal electroreceptor organs, which are distributed over almost the entire body surface. The detection, localisation and analysis of objects performed by monitoring self-produced electric signals is called active electrolocation.
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Active Electrolocation. (2008). In Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (pp. 35–35). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_66
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