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Does lunisolar gravitational tide affect the activity of animals?

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Multiyear time series obtained by the continuous instrumental monitoring of the electrical activity (EA) of weakly electric fish Gnathonemus leopoldianus and the motor activity (MA) of the freshwater catfish Hoplosternum thoracatum and the cockroach Blaberus craniifer are compared to the parameters of the lunisolar gravitational tide. These curves are observed to be very similar for a large number of time intervals. However, a more detailed analysis shows this to be only a superficial resemblance caused by the closeness of the periods of diurnal and semidiurnal rhythms of bioindicator activity (the dominant rhythms in EA and MA patterns) and the periods of main gravitational tidal waves. It is concluded that the lunisolar gravitational tide has no significant effect on animal behavior in our experiment.

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Deshcherevskii, A.Ya. Sidorin, 2010, published in Geofizicheskie protsessy i biosfera, 2010, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 50–66

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Deshcherevskii, A.V., Sidorin, A.Y. Does lunisolar gravitational tide affect the activity of animals?. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 46, 982–992 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433810080074

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