electrosensitive

That knowledge led Sam England, a sensory ecologist at the University of Bristol and lead author of the study, and his co-author Daniel Robert to wonder whether an animal with electrosensitive hairs might detect the electric field of an approaching predator.

At one point, he wonders if the original electrosensitive resident's reaction to cell service and Wi-Fi was an "intense manifestation of the kind of tech overload that we all experience at one time or another. Although she was an extremist, there was something very human about her search for quiet."

It’s high-tech, too — the rostrum has electrosensitive pores that help detect unsuspecting future meals, which counteracts the sawfish’s poor vision.

Like Meckna, Dacre felt that there were people claiming to be electrosensitive who were nothing of the sort, who were queering the pitch for the others: “You can tell at once who is just pretending,” she said.

Double-blind studies of people who consider themselves electrosensitive have found no relationship between the onset of their symptoms and the presence of electromagnetic fields.