A type of African electrical fish sends short electrical bursts into the water — and scientists were able to distinguish the difference between the male and female waveforms as duets were conducted.

The Ambon damsel (Pomacentrus amboinensis) have been found to need exposure to the natural environment to develop the ultraviolet (UV) facial markings reef fish use as a covert communication system to ...

When listening to a well-practiced speaker, like during a lecture, a political event or during a favorite public radio show, you may notice they use pauses for dramatic effect. This type of nuance in ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 4, No. 4 (1979), pp. 381-393 (13 pages) 1. The electrical interactions of a pair of Gymnotus carapo of known dominance relationship were studied in a large ...

Did you know that fish can talk? Well, sort of, anyway. To be more specific, some fish make sounds that, according to a new study published in Ichthyology and Herpetology, are used in patterns that ...

University of Guelph provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Guelph provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Biologists study the social behaviour ...

Scientists have known for years that the sounds pollution of our lakes and oceans can interfere with some aquatic species’ ability to navigate their watery world. But echolocating whales and dolphins ...

Weakly electric fish spend their lives bathed in their own internally generated mild electric field, interpreting perturbations in the field as objects pass through and when communicating with members ...