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The Vibrational Sense of Spiders

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Comparative Hearing: Insects

Part of the book series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research ((SHAR,volume 10))

Abstract

Sensory physiology, like other disciplines of science, tends to be biased toward the obviously spectacular and, of course, toward the sensory world we humans are living in. In this sense, spiders and their vibration sense may seem to be a rather exotic topic to study. Animals, however, look at the world through windows that may differ drastically from our own. At first sight the spectacular may not be obvious to us at all. Hopefully, this chapter will convince the reader that studying such seemingly aberrant subjects as spiders is well worth the effort.

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Barth, F.G. (1998). The Vibrational Sense of Spiders. In: Hoy, R.R., Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R. (eds) Comparative Hearing: Insects. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 10. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0585-2_7

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