To navigate the world, we all shimmy like these electric fish

ScienceDaily
Oct 26, 2023, 1:14 pm105 pts
An electric knifefish shimmies in the water for the same reason a dog sniffs or a human glances around a new place -- to make sense of their surroundings. For the first time, scientists demonstrate that a wide range of organisms, even microbes, perform the same pattern of movements in order to sense the world.

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