My question could be about any sensory modalities but it rose with the case of hearing in female mosquitoes. Females mosquitoes of most species does not behaviorally respond to sound stimuli (contrary to males), even if their organs are highly sensitive to sound stimuli in electrophysiology studies. They are only a few exceptions in females including frog-biting mosquitoes that are attracted to the playback of host calls (see this SE thread).
So there are two options to solve the paradox in mosquito female hearing: either we have not managed to induce the behavioural response to sound which electrophysiology response is associated, or they just don't use their high sound sensitivity organs. I'm interested in the latest hypothesis.
Do we know any examples of organisms that have a highly developed auditory organ and
- don't use it for whatever (evolutionary?) reason?
- or have been showed to use the sounds without direct behavioral changes at the moment of the sound exposure?