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What is electroreception?

What is electroreception? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The biological ability to perceive electrical impulses, used for electrolocation and electrocommunication and particularly common among aquatic creatures (since salt water is a more efficient conductor than air).
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Muscle contractions also produce little surges of electrical activity that a shark can detect using electroreception.
In addition, electroreception, the ability to detect minute electrical activities, works effectively at short distances in sharks.
With electroreception blocked, sharks usually failed to capture prey.
It is the electroreception system that allows them to navigate through the muddy dark waters they dwell in.
I think they've demonstrated in a convincing way that this dolphin species can use electroreception, and in a way that's sensitive enough to potentially detect prey.
The snout is covered with electroreception organs and thus is highly sensitive.

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