Fishes can “hear” their surroundings though their bodies – sensing where they are. Are they “aware” of this? Perhaps no more than we are “aware” of seeing through our eyes.
Fish Ears 2 – Fishes hear where they are…
Tag: auditory thresholds
Fish Ears 1 – What do fishes really hear?
Most of the auditory threshold research on fishes has assumed that they use sound much as mammals do. We found this assumption to be somewhat out in the weeds…
Birds “hear” the weather.
Scenes from the Acoustical Society meeting in Chicago
None of these animals are merely “response machines;” rather they all have complex, and generally delightful personalities.
A Big new source of noise in the sea…
This is one of those “how do you put the toothpaste back into the tube?” situations – at a global scale…
The Measure of Things
Quite a few years back we committed to assemble a compendium of “auditory thresholds” or hearing sensitivities of fish and marine mammals. The objective was to plot data from each family – fish, pinnepeds, dolphins, and porpoises on their own respective…