WTF?! What can’t they do?
In a neat new discovery, researchers have found that one species of dolphin has the ability to sense electricity.
According to Discover Magazine, researchers examined small pits on the dolphin’s nose, or vibrissal crypts, and found them to be connected to a number of nerves that reach the dolphin’s brain.
Suspecting these crypts to be sense organs, researchers tested Guiana dolphins’ reactions to a mild electrical field with and without these crypts covered.
Sharks, rays and platypuses, can also sense electricity but is the first “true mammal” known to be able to detect electrical fields.
[image via NBC]
Aug 01, 2011 18:00pm PDT
