Weakly electric fish perceive their surroundings through electric chirrups and now Ana Camargo & co have revealed that light fine-tunes the fish's electric pulses to ensure that they remain secluded beneath the mats of vegetation under which they shelter and avoid penetrating beams of light that could give them away

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/17/jeb246370/328287

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