PHYSIOLOGY
MUSCLE RECEPTORS
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These receptors allow the animals to use echolocation.
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These receptors can sense when a hurricane is in the ocean.
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These receptors can sense when the water is too cold.
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These receptors can sense the weak electric fields emitted by other creatures.
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Detailed explanation-1: -electroreception, the ability to detect weak naturally occurring electrostatic fields in the environment. Electroreception is found in a number of vertebrate species, including the members of two distinct lineages of teleosts (a group of ray-finned fishes) and monotremes (egg-laying mammals).
Detailed explanation-2: -Electricity is detected by electroreceptors, specialized sensory cells embedded in the skin, typified by jelly-filled pores open to the surrounding water. Structurally and embryonically, electroreceptors resemble the sensory hair cells of the lateral line system, minus the mechanoreceptive hairs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Weakly electric teleost fish possess two classes of electroreceptors: tuberous and ampullary organs. Ampullary organs are used for detecting prey, while tuberous organs detect the fish’s own electric organ discharges (EODs) and those of conspecifics.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ampullae of Lorenzini (singular Ampulla) are electroreceptors, sense organs able to detect electric fields. They form a network of mucus-filled pores in the skin of cartilaginous fish (sharks, rays, and chimaeras) and of basal bony fishes such as reedfish, sturgeon, and lungfish.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ampullary receptors detect electric fields in the low-frequency spectral range of 0 to 60 hertz (Hz).