Elephant Fish
Found around rivers in western and central Africa, this fish is dark funky. Trunk like protrusion of the head (which is not like the elephant, the mouth is actually more than the nose). Elephantnose equipped with specialized organs that produce electricity, which is located in the tail, which consists of thousands "of boxes such as multi-nucleated cells" called electroplax (or electroplaques). According WetWebMedia.com, in a resting state, each electroplax cells have a negative charge and positive charge on the outside. When an organ is stimulated by muscle contraction, / internal external costs is reversed, creating a weak electrical current. Thus, this elephantfish able to detect various levels of distortion in the field of self-produced and then to distinguish between predators and prey.
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