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of it is made for comparison with the detected electric field it creates. The cerebellum plays a key role in processing such efference copy dependent perception. The muddy waters where they live has resulted in such electroperception playing a key role in their survival and this has resulted in their
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but these due to their endothermy also have high body energy metabolism. The unusual high brain energy consumption percentage of mormyrinae fish is thus due to them having the unusual combination of a large brain in a low energy consuming body. The actual energy consumption per unit mass of its brain
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since it is dependent upon the ability to distinguish between self-generated and other generated electric fields, and their self-created aspects and their environment modification. To enable this specialized information processing, with each self-generated electrical discharge, an
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The body energy expenditure of ectothermic animals is about 1/13 of that of endotherms but the energy expenditure of the brains of both ectothermic and endothermic animals are similar. Other high brain percentage (2.6–3.7 % of the body mass) animals exist such as
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Nieuwenhuys R. Nicholson, C. (1969). A survey of the general morphology, the fiber connections and the possible functional significance of the gigantocerebellum of mormyrid fishes. pp. 107–134. In Neurobiology of Cerebellar Evolution and Development. (ed.
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The range with which the adult brain in all animals regardless of body size consumes energy as a percentage of the body's energy is roughly 2% to 8%. The only exceptions of animal brains using more than 10% (in terms of
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muscles. To detect these fields from those created by other mormyrinae fish, their prey animals, and how their nearby environment distorts them, their skin contains three types of
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Mink JW, Blumenschine RJ, Adams DB. (1981). Ratio of central nervous system to body metabolism in vertebrates: its constancy and functional basis. Am J Physiol. 241(3):R203-12.
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Van Neer, Wim; Gonzalez, JĂ©rĂ´me (2019). "A Late Period fish deposit at Oxyrhynchus (el-Bahnasa, Egypt)". In Peters, Joris; McGlynn, George; Goebel, Veronika (eds.).
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Bell CC, Szabo T (1986). Electroreception in Mormyrid fish. Central Anatomy. pp. 375–421. In: Bullock TH, Heiligenberg W, (eds.), Electroreception. New York, Wiley
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of any animal. Previous to this discovery, it was the “human brain, which had been thought to hold the record in this respect”. The
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consumption. This is due to the combination of large brain size (3.1% of body mass compared to 2% in humans) and them being
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are the specialized electrical detection organs for this function). This electroperception, however, requires complex
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Neural substrates for species recognition in the time-coding electrosensory pathway of mormyrid electric fish
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though this term is usually associated with an unrelated group of fish). They can also be called tapirfish.
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is not in fact particularly high and indeed lower (2.02 mg g h) than that in some other fish such as
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The classification by osteology-based traits of Mormyridae into the two subfamilies of Mormyrinae and
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Bell CC. (2002). Evolution of cerebellum-like structures. Brain Behav Evol. 59(5-6):312-26.
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and reflecting this is called a gigantocerebellum. This enlarged cerebellum links to their
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Mormyrinae is the largest subfamily in the Osteoglossiformes order with around 170 species.
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was a sacred fish in Ancient Egypt. At the city of Per-Medjed, better known as
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Documenta Archaeobiologiae Animals: Cultural Identifiers In Ancient Societies?
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due to a long protrusion below their mouths used to detect buried
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found that mormyrinae brains utilize roughly 60% of their body O
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that is suggestive of a tusk or trunk (some such as
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Index


Peters' elephantnose fish
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Osteoglossiformes
Mormyridae
Mormyrinae
freshwater fish
Mormyridae
Osteoglossiformes
invertebrates
trunkfish
brain to body mass ratio
cerebellum
metabolic rate
human brain
humans
The Journal of Experimental Biology
Uppsala University
ectothermic
bats
swallows
crows
sparrows
Salmonidae
low oxygen conditions

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