[DOC] [TLE] Electroreception - Wikipedia [PAR] Electroreception is the biological ability to perceive natural electrical stimuli. It 
has been ... Many fish use electric fields to detect buried prey. ... It has been 
proposed that sharks can use their acute electric sense to detect the earth's 
magnetic field ... Passive electroreception is carried out solely by ampullary 
electroreceptors in... [DOC] [TLE] Sensory mucous glands detect prey : Platypus - AskNature [PAR] Apr 29, 2015 ... The bill of the duck-billed platypus aids in the detection of prey via large ... 
possess electroreceptors in their bill to detect weak electric fields generated by 
the ... What can we learn from how some of the rainforest's millions of... [DOC] [TLE] Platypus Electroreception [PAR] Electroreception allows platypuses to use electrical impulses to locate objects in 
... that he could only describe as a small amphibious animal of the mole kind 
which ... merely a mammal costumed with a duck-bill and webbed feet (Griffiths 
1998). ... and electro-sensory organ that pinpoints the exact location of deep sea 
prey. [DOC] [TLE] Platypus Facts | Duck-billed Platypuses ... - Animal Fact Guide [PAR] Did you know platypuses can sense electrical signals with their snout? ... An 
animal with a bill like a duck, a tail like a beaver, and feet like an otter sounds ... 
You have the platypus, a monotreme (an egg-laying mammal) that is ... electro-
receptors that pick up on the small electrical signals sent by animals when they 
move. [DOC] [TLE] Electroreception in monotremes - Imune.net [PAR] The monotremes, or egg-laying mammals, have been a ... hoax perpetrated by 
careful attachment of a duck-bill and ... ampullary electroreceptors in fish (Andres 
and von During, ... be trained to detect small direct current electrical fields in ... 
Platypus can detect stimuli ... behavioural studies are now being used to guide 
the. [DOC] [TLE] Platypus Genome - Animals - Science - The New York Times [PAR] May 8, 2008 ... It was classified as a mammal, one of only two monotremes (echidna is the ... 
known to rely on electrosensory receptors in its bill to detect faint electric fields 
emitted by underwater prey. ... The Pentagon's 'Terminator Conundrum': Robots 
That Could Kill on Their Own ... Well  Money & Policy  Health Guide. [DOC] [TLE] Other Vertebrate Senses - The Senses - Animal Life - THE LIVING ... [PAR] The receptors in its bill can detect the electrical currents created by the 
contracting ... and fish, enabling the mammal to detect its prey at night and in 
muddy water. ... Birds kept in blind cages, with no visual cues to guide them, will 
peck and ... They will not do so, however, if the cage is shielded from magnetic 
fields by steel. [DOC] [TLE] The Platypus: Museum Victoria [PAR] There are no external ears, and the minute eyes are almost hidden in its beaver-
like coat. ... because they lay eggs; the only other egg-laying mammal is the 
echidna. ... Electroreceptors in the bill detect tiny electrical fields emitted by their 
prey items ... In captivity, a platypus can consume half its own body weight of food 
in a... [DOC] [TLE] The platypus - creation.com [PAR] The platypus has perplexed scientists since its discovery by Europeans in the 
late ... Experts of the day could not reconcile the fact that a duck-billed mammal 
with ... The nerve receptors in his highly sensitive bill could not cope with the 
violent ... an electric field through the flipping of its tail which the platypus can 
detect from... [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 55: Sensory Systems [PAR] Categories of Sensory Receptors and Their Actions. ... Special receptors can 
detect heat, electrical currents, and magnetic fields. ... Mammalian hearing, for 
exam- ..... a fish to detect prey, for example, and to swim in synchrony ...... The 
receptors in its bill can detect ... in blind cages, with no visual cues to guide them, 
will. [DOC] [TLE] rholson/lecture/WEEK 4.txt [PAR] Hence eyes want to be long + Receptor packing/density: the closer together, the 
... birds, mammals Example

Question: Receptors on the bill of this duckbilled mammal can detect electric fields which guide it to its prey
Answer: Platypus