But new research by Mason and his former PhD student Norman Lee, lead author and now an assistant professor of Biology at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, has found that Ormia's mechanically - coupled hearing system prevents it from using SRM. (sciencedaily.com)
As they are nocturnal and the males sing to attract distant females for mating, these findings explain how females are so good at finding the best singing males in the dark and helps us to really understand how such sensitive and efficient hearing systems work.» (sciencedaily.com)
An incredibly advanced hearing system which enables a group of insects to listen to the same sound twice with each ear, helping them to locate the sound's origin with pinpoint accuracy, has been discovered by scientists at the University of Lincoln, UK. (sciencedaily.com)