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Animal electricity

It’s not obvious, but animals use a lot of physics in their daily battle for survival. Liz Kalaugher and Matin Durrani reveal how electric eels and loggerhead turtles deploy electricity and magnetism

Electric eel

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This article describes how electric eels use an electric field to locate and stun their prey, and how turtle hatchlings are guided by the Earth’s magnetic field.

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