Humans aren’t the only ones that think before they speak.
Believe it or not, some species of fish also take a moment before communicating something worthwhile as well.
New research by Washington University in St. Louis and published on Science Daily has found that electric fish—any fish that generates an electric field such as electric eels, electric rays, etc.—actually “pause before sharing something particularly meaningful.”
While these water-dwellers obviously don’t talk in the ways humans do, what this means specifically is that there’s a moment in their prime sensory systems in which there is a type of “pause” before putting on a more emotional display.
To come to this conclusion, the researchers of the study observed a type of electric fish called mormyrids and tracked the pulses they use to communicate with each other. They observed that the fish communicated differently when they were with another fish as opposed to when they were alone in their tanks, producing sharper, higher bursts of pulses after pausing in conversation with their companion.
“Human auditory systems respond more strongly to words that come right after a pause, and during normal, everyday conversations, we tend to pause just before speaking words with especially high-information content,” explains Bruce Carlson, professor of biology at the school. “We see parallels in our fish where they respond more strongly to electrosensory stimuli that come after a pause.
“We also find that fish tend to pause right before they produce a high-frequency burst of electric pulses, which carries a large amount of information.”
Further information regarding this study remains pending.
The Link LonkMay 31, 2021 at 11:34PM
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