It just means its field is going to be particular strong. The Shockjaw produces super-powerful electric zaps, but that doesn't mean its electric field of reception is going to be huge. Not only is this yet another not-smell sense used for tracking, but it also shows that a dragon can be in two classes at once. Meanwhile, the Submaripper, a dragon duel-classified with the Tidal Class, the Shockjaw's own class, senses vibrations in the water similar to a crocodile or alligator, using touch as its sense. ![]() The Mudraker also uses sound, using "echolocation" underwater, a.k.a. The Common Rockstomper can use vibrations from its horns to track things in the ground. But the remaining dragons are the Common Rockstomper, Mudraker, and Submaripper. Tracker Class dragons include the Deadly Nadder, Rumblehorn, Snifflehunch, Windgnasher, and Thunderclaw, which use their sense of smell to track (with the Thunderclaw using its tongue as an important organ in its sense of smell). The Tracker Class has become problematically confusing the more the franchise adds dragons to the class that track by means other than smell, and sometimes it's hard to tell what should qualify as Tracker Class. Now there's nothing particularly wrong with that in a fictional universe I just thought it was interesting. ![]() The design the franchise gave us is really more of an inversion of what would actually make sense. If the Shockjaw had been made in a realistic biological sense, it would actually have an electric organ in its abdomen or near its tail, and its chin tendrils would instead be electroreceptors. Sensors, meanwhile, are often projecting from or on a projecting part of the body in order to pick up as many electric signals as it can outside the body and are normally found near the head, where they can easily send messages to the brain about what's in front of it, the same as other specialized environment sensors like your eyes and nose. Both of these correlate the most strongly to the Shockjaw's tendrils.) Here's the thing electric organs tend to be internal (and rarely near the head.though electric rays beg to differ on that) because they use the body's own natural ions to produce a polarity that creates a current. (In fact, for dolphins, these electroreceptors are literally whiskers, and in the elphantnose, it's an elongated chin. But many organisms, from elephantnose fish to sharks to dolphins to platypuses to echidnas, have specialized electric sensors called electroreceptors on their face. But no organism has this, regardless of whether they are weakly electric or strongly electric. You see, I tried to look for other organisms with electric organs that stick out of the face, much like the Shockjaw's tendrils. ![]() That's pretty much the whole theory, but I did discover something very strange about the Shockjaw's design that I thought was intereting.
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