Sunday, January 6, 2013

Dolphin Hearing System Component Found in Insects


Ever thought there would be a connection between dolphins and insects? Neither did I! A hearing system component thought to be one of a kind in toothed whales like dolphins has been identified in insects. Scientists from the School of Biological Sciences at The University of Auckland, with collaborators from Plant & Food Research in New Zealand, led the research with engineers from the University of Strathclyde working on the biomechanical aspects of the project. This result is interesting because before this only Dolphins were speculated to use this kind of hearing component.  They believe that the same method of hearing is likely to be used by other branches of its biologic class, including crickets and katydids, which are famous for the sounds they produce. I think this is very interesting because it shows that even with high diversity there is many similarities with all things on this earth.


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