News Stories on Research from the Carlson Lab:

Interview with Will Hamilton of "The Naked Scientists":

Bruce_Carlson_interview_Mixdown_3.MP3

 

"Chisembe: Shadow Hunters of Malawi" by Matthew E. Arnegard:

A Documentary Video of Mormyrops anguilloides in Lake Malawi:

 

High Quality Download:

Chisembe.mov

 

Video of Mormyrops anguilloides attempting to catch a cichlid prey in Lake Malawi:

PreyCapture.avi

PreyCapture.mov

 

Video of "synchronized bursting" between two M. anguilloides pack members:

SyncBurst.avi

SyncBurst.mov

 

Audio of electrical activity recorded from several Paramormyrops kingsleyae in Biroundou Creek, Gabon:

BiroundouCreek.mp3

 

Shockwave video showing courtship behavior in B. brachyistius from data published in Wong & Hopkins (2007) J Exp Biol 210: 2244-2252:

Audio of an electric organ discharge (EOD) recorded from Gymnarchus niloticus, a 'wave-type' mormyriform:

Shockwave video showing amplitude and phase modulations resulting from 'jamming' in wave-type weakly electric fish:

Shockwave video showing the responses of an 'amplitude-coding' primary afferent in G. niloticus to sinusoidal amplitude modulations:

 

Shockwave video showing the responses of a 'time-coding' primary afferent in G. niloticus to sinusoidal phase modulations: