ABSTRACT
It has been known for centuries that rubbing amber will generate an electrical charge. In Greek the word for “amber” is electron, which places the origin of the name for electricity around 600 bc. I n addition to t he visible impact of electrostatic forces, moving charges are recognized as having secondary e ects that can be measured. A s such, moving charges a nd t he a ssociated electric and magnetic elds, respectively, can be detected by biological o rgans t hat h ave a s tructure t hat ac commodates t he interaction. e b iological de tection o f ele ctric a nd m agnetic elds is ranked as a separate sense called electroreception, sometimes also called electroception.
