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.

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 ...

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams introduces us to the Babel fish. His narrator describes it as "probably the oddest thing in the universe." When you stick one in your ear, you ...

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 ...

How do you know when a male toadfish is looking for love? Easy—just listen for the grunts and boops. Like some birds and frogs, toadfish sing to find a mate. In fact, if you didn’t know what to look ...

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 ...

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 ...

Schools of fish are mesmerizing examples of collective animal behavior. Thousands of individuals move in near-perfect ...