Electrosensory basis for individual recognition in a weakly electric, mormyrid fish, Pollimyrus adspersus (Günther, 1866)

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-4602
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.460

Paintner, Stephan ; Kramer, Bernd

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Abstract

Pollimyrus adspersus discriminates the individually variable waveforms of Electric Organ Discharges (EODs) of conspecifics of only 150-250 mus duration. We examined: (1) the discrimination threshold for artificially generated EODs of similar waveform, (2) the mechanism of signal analysis (spectral vs temporal) present, by determining the discrimination between different waveforms of identical ...