How Animals Hear

How Animals Hear
Author: Joanne Mattern
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1502642034

Animals rely on their sense of hearing to locate predators, find food, and sense danger. This book explores a variety of animal ears and describes how they work and how they help animals hear. From the super-sharp hearing of an owl to grasshoppers that hear through their legs, this book is full of fascinating facts that capture the reader's attention while providing scientific information and offering an opportunity to compare animal hearing to the readers' own. Photographs, diagrams, and maps add to the learning and make this book even more appealing for young learners.

Animal Ears

Animal Ears
Author: Mary Holland
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781607184478

An introduction to different types of animal ears.

The Evolving Animal Orchestra

The Evolving Animal Orchestra
Author: Henkjan Honing
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0262351161

A music researcher's quest to discover other musical species. Even those of us who can't play a musical instrument or lack a sense of rhythm can perceive and enjoy music. Research shows that all humans possess the trait of musicality. We are a musical species—but are we the only musical species? Is our musical predisposition unique, like our linguistic ability? In The Evolving Animal Orchestra, Henkjan Honing embarks upon a quest to discover if humans share the trait of musicality with other animals. Charles Darwin believed that musicality was a capacity of all animals, human and nonhuman, with a clear biological basis. Taking this as his starting point, Honing—a music cognition researcher—visits a series of biological research centers to observe the ways that animals respond to music. He has studied scientists' accounts of Snowball, the cockatoo who could dance to a musical beat, and of Ronan, the sea lion, who was trained to move her head to a beat. Now Honing will be able to make his own observations. Honing tests a rhesus monkey for beat perception via an EEG; performs a listening experiment with zebra finches; considers why birds sing, and if they intend their songs to be musical; explains why many animals have perfect pitch; and watches marine mammals respond to sounds. He reports on the unforeseen twists and turns, doubts, and oversights that are a part of any scientific research—and which point to as many questions as answers. But, as he shows us, science is closing in on the biological and evolutionary source of our musicality.

Engineering Animals

Engineering Animals
Author: Mark Denny
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2011-05-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0674060857

The alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an engineer's perspective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things really work? And how does physics constrain evolution, channeling it in particular directions? Writing with wit and a richly informed sense of wonder, Denny and McFadzean offer an expert look at animals as works of engineering, each exquisitely adapted to a specific manner of survival, whether that means spinning webs or flying across continents or hunting in the dark-or writing books. This particular book, containing more than a hundred illustrations, conveys clearly, for engineers and nonengineers alike, the physical principles underlying animal structure and behavior. Pigeons, for instance-when understood as marvels of engineering-are flying remote sensors: they have wideband acoustical receivers, hi-res optics, magnetic sensing, and celestial navigation. Albatrosses expend little energy while traveling across vast southern oceans, by exploiting a technique known to glider pilots as dynamic soaring. Among insects, one species of fly can locate the source of a sound precisely, even though the fly itself is much smaller than the wavelength of the sound it hears. And that big-brained, upright Great Ape? Evolution has equipped us to figure out an important fact about the natural world: that there is more to life than engineering, but no life at all without it.

Animal Senses

Animal Senses
Author: Pamela Hickman
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1998-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1550744259

"Stunning illustrations combined with fascinating facts reveal the ways animals sense their environment. Easy experiments show kids how to compare animal senses to their own" Cf. Our choice, 1999-2000.

What Does Kitten Hear?

What Does Kitten Hear?
Author:
Publisher: Lotje Everywhere
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781605372525

A colorful search-and-count book that will provide hours of fun. For curious kids ages 3 and up.

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
Author: Bill Martin
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1991-10-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780805017595

What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child? Lots of noise Children will chant the rhythmic words. They'll make the sounds the animals make. And they'll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book-- look at the last page Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle are two of the most respected names in children's education and children's illustrations. This collaboration, their first since the classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (published more than thirty years ago and still a best-seller) shows two masters at their best. A Redbook Children's Picture Book Award winner The rollicking companion to Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Deafness in Dogs and Cats

Deafness in Dogs and Cats
Author: George M. Strain
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Deaf cats
ISBN: 9781845937867

Deafness in pets is a very common problem and is increasingly being presented to veterinarians, as owners and breeders become more aware and concerned about such issues. This book will provide complete coverage of the subject describing the anatomy and physiology of the auditory system, types of deafness, testing for deafness, methods of amelioration and management, behaviour of deaf animals, and other issues associated with living and dealing with deaf pets.

Sounds of Nature: World of Forests

Sounds of Nature: World of Forests
Author:
Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1786033275

Travel the world with the Sounds of Nature series – press the note in each of the 10 forest habitats to hear vivid recordings of over 60 different animal sounds. The Sounds of Nature series brings the natural world to life with the sounds of real animals recorded in the wild. Captivating edge-to-edge illustrations show animals in action in their habitats around the globe. The animals are numbered in the order they can be heard, with fascinating facts and descriptions of the sounds they make, so you can listen out for each one. A speaker set into the back cover plays a sound clip when you press firmly on the note in each illustration. The battery is already installed, so simply open and explore. In World of Forests, discover these amazing habitats: evergreen forest of Germany; redwood forest of California, USA; deciduous forest of England, UK; Amazon rainforest of South America; cloud forest of the Virunga mountains, Africa; desert forest of Socotra Island, Yemen; beech forest in Brussels, Belgium; mangrove forest in the Sundarbans, India; and boreal forest of Alaska, USA. Listen to these wooded places come to life as you hear the: Low-pitched growls of the Eurasian lynx (evergreen forest) Flute-like sound of the varied thrush (redwood forest) Neighing and snorting of a wild pony (deciduous forest) Raucous howls and grunts of the red howler monkey (rainforest) Scratchy sound of a blue-baboon spider moving to find an insect meal (desert forest) Chewing and snapping sounds of a giant panda having a meal (bamboo forest) Step under the trees, where 80 percent of the world's land species make their home, to take in the glorious sights and sounds!

Hear and There Book: Sounds on a Farm!

Hear and There Book: Sounds on a Farm!
Author: Gail Donovan
Publisher: Innovative Kids
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781584762218

"Who's making noises on the farm? Push the buttons to hear real animal sounds! Lift the flaps to see them in the barn! Learn fun facts about farm animals."--Page 4 of cover.