'Squeaker' catfish communicate across generations

Friday, January 29, 2010 - 05:56 in Biology & Nature

It has been thought that young fish, lacking well-developed hearing organs, could not perceive the sounds made by their larger, older relatives. Now, researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology have used a combined fish tank and sound-proof chamber to show for the first time that catfish of all ages can communicate with one another.

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