#torpedo ray

[herpsandbirds]

Common Torpedo Ray (Torpedo torpedo), family Torpedinidae, Corsica

photograph by Roberto Pillon

#ray #torpedo ray #elasmobranch #ichthyology #fish #ocean #animals #marine biology #nature #europe

[bethanythebogwitch]

Fish-uary 2024 day 9: ray

Day nine of @fish-daily's fish-uary 2024. The prompt is ray and I offer the shocking common torpedo (Torpedo torpedo).

#remind me to do a wet beast wednesday on torpedo rays #fishuary2024 #torpedo ray #Torpedo torpedo #ray #electric ray #fish #fishblr #art #new artist

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #658

Common torpedo!

This ambush predator can produce up to 200 volts of electricity, which it uses to stun unsuspecting prey! It is distinct from other electric rays thanks to its large spots, ocellae, which it tends to have five of in a symmetrical pattern. There are also cases of common torpedos having less than five or even no ocellae, and rarest of all there are rays with more than five!

#fish #fish facts #fishfact #fishblr #marine life #marine biology #marine animals #sea creatures #sea animals #sea life #biology #zoology #ray #rays #electric ray #common torpedo #common torpedo ray

[mizzswizz]

🐠 - Fishuary!!

day 9 - ray

common torpedo ray / torpedo torpedo

@fish-daily

@fishyfishyfishtimes

#fishuary 2024 #fishuary #fishblr #drawing challenge #drawing challenge 2024 #colored pencil #colored pencil art #art #drawing #artists of tumblr #traditional art #traditional artist #traditional drawing #small artist #fish art #fish #fish drawing #ray #stingray #torpedo #common torpedo #common torpedo ray #torpedo ray #torpedo torpedo

[pencilbrony]

Flatten

#not pony #concept #fantasy #design #scifi #torpedo #electric ray #merfolk #mermaid

[gessner-aldrovandi-et-amici]

Common torpedo from Marcus Elesier Bloch’s Ichthyologie ou, Histoire naturelle des poissons. Berlin 1796.

Source: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library (online via Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26748).

#torpedo (fish) in art #torpedinidae in art #electric rays in art #fish in art #animals in art #Bloch #18th century #Ernst Mayr Library #biodiversity heritage library

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Raypril Returns + Sea Angels: Torpedo Ray

Available on Redbubble!

#raypril #ray #torpedo #electric ray #angel #creature #art #fish

[sonic-elements]

Volt The Torpedo Ray

meet the electrician and combatant of Team Wisp, originally a wanderer out in the vast ocean. wanting to fight back against eggman. armed with powerful Electricity powers making him a good choice for the Ivory wisps. Meet Volt The Torpedo ray

(Sonic Characters belong to ©Sega) (Character belongs to me don't steal or trace)

#my art #my oc #aj the elementalgod #elementalgod aj #sonic oc #sonic fc #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #team wisp #sonic elements #sonic wisps #Ivory wisp #mobian #Volt The Torpedo Ray #electric torpedo ray

[xjumbled-up-brainx]

So there’s this girl who recently joined our friend group, her names Alyssa. But, before I knew her myself, she was referred to as Slay-lyssa. I was introduced to her as Slay-lyssa, when she was in a story my friends always used Slay-lyssa, that is what she is preferred to be called.

All my contact photos for family and friends are characters from TV shows or Movies that I associate them with…

And there is no one more slay than the Combtooth Blenny

#just a little fun fact I wanted to share #BLENNY MY BOY #Blenny be so slay #this is her picture #my other friend is Ray the Torpedo Ray #octonauts #octonauts a&b #above and beyond #octonauts above and beyond

[alliterative-endlessknot]

The surprisingly connected origins of "starve" and "torpedo".

#starve #torpedo #electric ray #etymology #wotd #words #connectedatbirth #language #linguistics #word nerd #wordnerd #history of english #history of the english language #historical linguistics #lingcomm #lingblr #video #youtube #ytshorts

[seablazar]

#dailyseacrits #rays #Common torpedo ray

[child-star]

I love how cool some animal names are. Like... how am I not supposed to lose my shit over the Electric Torpedo Ray or the Hellbender or Pink Fairy Armadillo? You can't make me. I will be feral and excited about them.

#im watching a deep sea documentary #and they mentioned the electric Torpedo ray #and i lost my mind #and dont get me started on dinosaur names #i will rant for literal days

[literallymechanical]

Alessandro Volta's Electric Eels

Okay so, it turns out that your cell phone battery is a basically a homunculus of an electric fish. 

These are the same thing. Let me explain.

@fishteriously, a paleoichthyologist, told me that Alessandro Volta invented the electric battery after studying electric eels and rays.  This sounded like a fun science factoid!  I wanted to know more!  I saw the claim repeated on any number of pop science articles from the last century or so, but none that quoted from primary sources.

The voltaic pile is one of the most important inventions, ever, of all time.  Before Volta, electricity could be stored in Leyden jar capacitors, which would discharge in a single, brief burst. Volta's pile was the first method of producing a continuous electric current, which launched the modern era of electricity as we know it. His explanation for how it worked was incorrect, but it was still a massive breakthrough.

Batteries use the same principle to this day, just with different materials (e.g. cobalt oxide, graphite, and lithium salts rather than silver, zinc, and brine).

But is it a fish?

This is Volta's first schematic of a battery, or "voltaic pile" – at the time, "battery" referred to a bunch of Leyden jars linked in series, the term wouldn't come to refer to piles until later. "Z" and "A" stand for zinc and silver ("argentum"), with brine-soaked paper disks between. It does look a bit like an eel?

But is it truly?

Surely, if Volta modeled the pile after electric fishes, I’d be able to find a citation!  Wikipedia is usually a good place to start when hunting primary sources, but no luck.  No mention of fish at all.  I trust fishteriously more than wikipedia, however, so I went digging.  Looks like Volta first reported his discovery in a Letter to the Royal Society in 1800.

Found the letter!

Aw beans, it’s in French.  I haven’t studied French since high school.

BUT WAIT. WHAT WAS THAT.

Une commotion électrique? A trembling eel???

Okay so now I NEEDED to read the letter in English. I found an English-language summary published by the Royal Society, but it looks like the only English translation of the full letter was in the appendix of an out-of-print book called “Alessandro Volta and the Electric Battery.”

So I bought a used copy. Let's see what Volta has to say about this:

"To this apparatus ... I have constructed it, in its form to the natural electric organ of the torpedo or electric eel, &c, than to the Leyden flask and electric batteries [battery = linked Leyden flasks], I would wish to give the name of artificial electric organ."

Yes! The voltaic pile was explicitly modeled after electric fishes – torpedo rays and electric eels.  Fishteriously was 100% correct. Volta never even calls it a "pile," it is always "artificial electric organ." A significant portion of the letter is devoted to electric eels and torpedo rays, in fact.

But also, the rest of the letter is bonkers.

He wrote pages on painful experiments with the artificial electric organ – touching it, poking it into his eyes and ears, making other people touch it, generally just shocking the ever loving hell out of himself over and over. He routinely shocks himself so hard that he has to take breaks. And of course, he licks it.

But that's not the best part:

He says that the artificial electric organ can be turned sideways and submerged in liquid...

"...by which means these cylinders would have a pretty good resemblance to the electric eel ... they might be joined together by pliable metallic wires or screw springs, and then covered with a skin terminated by a head and tail properly formed, &c."

There you have it. One of the most important scientific discoveries of all time, and it includes a crafts project for building an authentic electric eel puppet.

In summary, next time you charge your phone, take a moment to thank the soul of the electric fish inside of it.

#science #engineering #not mad just disappointed

[mutant-distraction]

The common torpedo, also known as ocellate torpedo or eyed electric ray, is a species of electric ray in the family Torpedinidae

[antiqueanimals]

Marbled electric ray (Torpedo marmorata), Smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata)

Fishes of the World. Written by Hans Hvass. Illustrated by Wilhelm Eigener. Originally published in 1964.

Internet Archive

#marine life #fish #cartilaginous fish #rays #electric rays #marbled electric ray #sawfish #smalltooth sawfish #Wilhelm Eigener

[darkesttiimelines]

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#this post was inspired by me being absolutely sick of trans activists claiming that joan of arc/rani lakshmibai/insert literally any other #strong woman #is actually a trans man #they were no man at all #women have been brave and strong and amazing throughout history #and they still are #if only you'd get your head out of your ass to take a look #radical feminism #radblr #terf #trans #misogny #i am no man