Auditive perception

As auditive or acoustic perception (also Sense of hearing or simply Sense of hearing) one designates one Sensory perception of to be noticed can.

Mammals

The hearing of Animals consists of that . The hearing one Mammal is that with the highest spectral the sound contains.

Such a hearing, consisting of a gehoergang, one Schallmembran and a snail filled with liquid, already is with early Vertebrate animals available and usually with that links. Developed both the organ of equilibrium, and the hoerorgan from that the fish. In the course of the evolution it became particularly by the installation of the auditory ossicles (parts of the primary already with that , Hammer and are only added with the first mammals. Evolutionary however the entire hearing of the mammals is different from that of the other vertebrate animals. This is among other things an indication for the fact that the last common ancestors of mammals and for example the reptiles were fish. The oldest fossil with all three auditory ossicles is .

The human hearing knows acoustic events only within a certain frequency and . Between that and that those lies . See also the topic " the subjective aural acuity of humans describes.

Insects

Beside the vertebrate animals have however a number of further groups of animals a hearing. So all insects, which produce sounds for communication, have hoerorgane, which can be differently developed. To it for instance those belong and those .

see also: , Amusie