The Shocking Truth About Electric Animals!
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[Intro] Hank Green: What you're about to see in this SciShow Dose may shock you. There are about 8600 animals in the world that are electroreceptive. They can feel electric fields. Like the sense of touch, eletroreceptivity carries information about the shape, size, and texture of things in the environment, and like hearing or vision, it works at a distance, but what it actually feels like is something that we will never be able to even imagine. For electroreceptive animals, electric currents and electric fields are as real and immediate as color or music are for us. Most electroreceptive animals are amphibians or fish, though there are rare exceptions, including the duck-billed platypus, because everything that could possibly be weird about the platypus ...
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[Intro] Hank Green: What you're about to see in this SciShow Dose may shock you. There are about 8600 animals in the world that are electroreceptive. They can feel electric fields. Like the sense of touch, eletroreceptivity carries information about the shape, size, and texture of things in the environment, and like hearing or vision, it works at a distance, but what it actually feels like is something that we will never be able to even imagine. For electroreceptive animals, electric currents and electric fields are as real and immediate as color or music are for us. Most electroreceptive animals are amphibians or fish, though there are rare exceptions, including the duck-billed platypus, because everything that could possibly be weird about the platypus ...
