The strange senses of other species

IEEE Spectrum

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 32-37

  Wickelgren, Ingrid ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMMUNICATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MARINE BIOLOGY; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

BIOELECTROMAGNETISM;

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA;

EID: 0030110718     PISSN: 00189235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/6.485770     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. A classic text is Electroreception, edited by T.H. Bullock and W. Heiligenberg, published by John Wiley & Sons in New York in 1986.
2. More recent is the 1995 Electric Fishes, History and Behavior, by Peter Moller, published by Chapman and Hall in New York.
3. "Electrosensory Organisms" by Joseph Bastian (Physics Today, February 1994, pp. 30-37) is a fine overview of electroreception and includes many circuit analogies. In "Electric Fish and the Discovery of Animal Electricity" (American Scientist, November-December 1984, pp. 598-607), Chau H. Wu tells how the fish sparked the discovery of electricity and the first battery.
4. "Electrosensory Organisms" by Joseph Bastian (Physics Today, February 1994, pp. 30-37) is a fine overview of electroreception and includes many circuit analogies. In "Electric Fish and the Discovery of Animal Electricity" (American Scientist, November-December 1984, pp. 598-607), Chau H. Wu tells how the fish sparked the discovery of electricity and the first battery.
5. A thorough review of the magnetic sense, as of 1985, is to be found in Magnetite Biomineralization and Magnetoreception in Animals, A New Biomagnetism, by J.L. Kirschvink, D.S. Jones, and B.J. MacFadden, (Plenum Press, New York). Michael E. Long presents a more reader-friendly overview in "The Secrets of Animal Navigation" (National Geographic, June 1991, pp. 70-99).
6. A thorough review of the magnetic sense, as of 1985, is to be found in Magnetite Biomineralization and Magnetoreception in Animals, A New Biomagnetism, by J.L. Kirschvink, D.S. Jones, and B.J. MacFadden, (Plenum Press, New York). Michael E. Long presents a more reader-friendly overview in "The Secrets of Animal Navigation" (National Geographic, June 1991, pp. 70-99).
7. In "How Sea Turtles Navigate" (Scientific American, January 1992, pp. 100-106), Kenneth J. Lohmann describes his research on the magnetic sense in those animals.
8. Richard P. Blakemore and Richard B. Frankel detail the discovery of "Magnetic Navigation in Bacteria" in the same magazine (December 1981, pp.58-65).