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Re: [Phys-L] Finally shark mag. sensing proved.



Interesting! I may have mentioned visiting a researcher at MBL, Woods Hole long ago. He rigged a shark tank and found that his shark subjects had an exquisitely sensitive electric field sense. The kind that might prove helpful in locating fish. I don't think he connected that result to an (unsuccessful) experiment that Faraday ran in the Thames, to measure the electric filed at either side of a bridge there due to the tidal current. A direct magnetic sense seems more plausible than mapping the electrical effect of ocean currents in the geomagnetic field, certainly.
On Thursday, May 6, 2021, 06:37:44 PM CDT, bernard cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org> wrote:

Yes? 


https://www.wired.com/story/sharks-use-the-earths-magnetic-field-like-a-compass/?bxid=5df54c65fbd297755b01592d&cndid=59387573&esrc=profile-page&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_050621&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list2_p1 <https://www.wired.com/story/sharks-use-the-earths-magnetic-field-like-a-compass/?bxid=5df54c65fbd297755b01592d&cndid=59387573&esrc=profile-page&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_050621&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list2_p1


bc …    reads “Wired” 
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