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Cover: This juvenile Apteronotus leptorhynchus, or brown ghost knifefish, belongs to one of approximately 200 species of South American gymnotiform weakly electric fishes. These animals use an active electrosense for foraging at night in often turbid waters as well as for communication. The total energetic cost of their electric behaviour, including generation and sensing of the electric field, is estimated to be about 30% of routine metabolic rate (Salazar et al., pp. 2459−2468). The articles in this special issue review the remarkable recent contributions of research on electric fishes to energetics and many other areas of biology. Photo credit: Guy l'Heureux.Close Modal - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
Applications open for Workshop on vertebrate gut physiology
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Applications are now open for Inside Out: New Frontiers in the Comparative Physiology of the Vertebrate Gut, a Workshop organised by Carol Bucking and Chris M. Wood that will examine the function of the vertebrate gastro-intestinal tract. Funded places are available for early-career researchers.
In the field: an interview with Chris Wood
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Professor Chris Wood talks about his experiences on the legendary R/V Alpha Helix expedition to the Amazon in 1976, his development of the Tusker Chamber in Kenya and more recent adventures on Vancouver Island, Canada.
Docile raccoons are likely trash can criminal masterminds
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Raccoons are notoriously adaptable to city dwelling, but it's not the bold proactive animals that you need to be wary of; it's the docile animals which are the best learners and likely trash can raiding criminal masterminds.
Finding the right thermal limit
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In this Review, Michael Ørsted, Lisa Bjerregaard Jørgensen and Johannes Overgaard present a framework to reconcile methodological measurements and mechanisms related to the physiology of heat stress tolerance limits, thermal injury and repair in ectotherms.
