Elephant snout can monitor water quality

In the central Niregia rivers - Africa has a species of fish about 10cm long, their shape is very strange because their lips in the oral cavity are very similar in shape to the whale snout, so called elephant snout .

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Elephant snout live appropriately in turbid, 2-eyed waters that have degenerated, poor vision; But the muscles around its tail can generate a series of consecutive electrical pulses used to gather information about the surrounding environment.

Under normal conditions, every minute the elephant snapper produces between 300 and 500 times the voltage pulse circuit. But when the river water is polluted, its pulse circuits will rapidly increase every 1000 minutes; The higher the pollution level of river water, the greater the frequency of the pulse circuit.

Because the elephant snout has this characteristic, its pulse signal is very easy to track, British scientists have thought of using the electrical impulse signals emitted by the elephant snout to measure the substance. amount of water. They only need to base on the pulse signal frequency because the elephant snout emitted big or small will measure the pollution quality of the water and the effect of this is ideal.