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The Hearing Organ of Birds and Crocodilia

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Comparative Hearing: Birds and Reptiles

Part of the book series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research ((SHAR,volume 13))

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Among the vertebrates, birds are one of the most vocal groups. Many birds (especially the passerines, or song birds) rely strongly on their sense of hearing for communication in territorial, social, and sexual behavior and for alarm signals. Their relatives, the Crocodilia (crocodiles, alligators, and gavials) are also vocal—a rare trait in reptiles. They are known to use several kinds of vocalization as communication signals in different behavioral contexts both as adults and as young, even within the egg (e.g., Garrick et al. 1978). In addition, some birds use their hearing for passive sound localization of prey (e.g., owls, Konishi 1973) or for active echolocation in their cave habitats (e.g., oil birds and cave swiftlets, Konishi and Knudsen 1979). Thus the sense of hearing is critically important in the life of many birds and Crocodilia, and selection pressures have produced an excellent sensitivity to sound (in birds as good as in mammals) in the frequency range covered (few birds hear higher frequencies than about 10-12 kHz).

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