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How do animals adapt to a partially or fully deaf individual of their group?
In eusocial animals for which hearing is important to communicate between individuals, is there any species apart humans for which there are some evidence that the group adapts their acoustic communication …
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Can a single tympanal ear detect the direction or distance from which a sound comes?
Direction-dependent mono-aural cues: Horizontal Spatial hearing cues are mainly driven by differences in time and amplitude of the sound wave in the two ears, while vertical spatial hearing is mostly driven … Single-sided deafness and directional hearing: contribution of spectral cues and high-frequency hearing loss in the hearing ear. Front Neurosci. 2014 Jul 4;8:188. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00188. …
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Could some dinosaurs have outer ears (auricles/pinnae)?
Did they have outer ears (pinnae/auricle) to focus sounds and help hearing better in 3D?
Pinnae are made of cartilage which does not preserve well in fossils. … , two related explanations are raised:
(response link) mammal hearing would be so sensitive that any small improvements (such as pinnae) help them to hear better, contrary to other groups where the outer …
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Are there any (natural) ears that are sensitive to particle acceleration?
I know 2 types of ears in the animal kingdom:
tympanal ears to detect the force exerted by air particles on a surface a.k.a. sound pressure (e.g. in mammals, birds, some insects, etc)
hairs/antennal …