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    Great ears: Low-frequency sensitivity correlates in land and marine leviathans

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    Authors
    Ketten, Darlene
    Arruda, J.
    Cramer, S.
    Yamato, M.
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Book Chapter
    
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    Ketten, D. and Arruda, J. and Cramer, S. and Yamato, M. 2016. Great ears: Low-frequency sensitivity correlates in land and marine leviathans. In Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 529-538.
    Source Title
    Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
    DOI
    10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_64
    School
    School of Science
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52342
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016.Like elephants, baleen whales produce low-frequency (LF) and even infrasonic (IF) signals, suggesting they may be particularly susceptible to underwater anthropogenic sound impacts. Analyses of computerized tomography scans and histologies of the ears in five baleen whale and two elephant species revealed that LF thresholds correlate with basilar membrane thickness/width and cochlear radii ratios. These factors are consistent with high-mass, low-stiffness membranes and broad spiral curvatures, suggesting that Mysticeti and Proboscidea evolved common inner ear adaptations over similar time scales for processing IF/LF sounds despite operating in different media.

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