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Long-term Behavioral Tracking of Freely Swimming Weakly Electric Fish
Published on: March 6, 2014
Abstract:
Theoretically, for anatomical reasons, the use of electric current should be an efficient killing method on whales, and a number of experiments with electric harpoons have therefore been previously carried out. Even though killing time was reduced in relation to the use of the detonating grenade harpoon, results were inconsistent, mainly because of technical problems. The method therefore seems to be too uncertain to be used as an alternative to present catching methods.
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