Animal Senses. Photoreceptors Vary from simple light/dark sensors in simple animals (e.g. worms) to complex organs in advanced animals. Wavelengths detected.

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Animal Senses

Photoreceptors Vary from simple light/dark sensors in simple animals (e.g. worms) to complex organs in advanced animals. Wavelengths detected can vary from ultra- violet to red. Bees can see UV. Goldfish can see infra-red. Birds see red well.

A range of mollusc eyes

Comparing eyes

Comparison of human and insect vision Humaninsect

Thermoreceptors Some snakes have infra-red sensitive pits that allow them to detect prey in the dark.

Humans can detect warmth with skin sensors Mosquitoes use thermoreceptors to find hosts

Mechanoreceptors Detect body position through touch, pressure, gravity, stretch and movement Statocysts detect gravity

Human inner ear

Proprioceptors detect stretching in muscles and tendons to let you know where your limbs are.

Chemoreceptors Human olfactory organ

Human taste Bitter Sweet Sour Salt

Male moths use their feathery antennae to detect females many km away

Flies feet smell – no not foot odour – they have chemosensory hairs that taste or smell the surface they are on

Snakes have a “Jacobson’s organ” into which their tongue is inserted after sampling the air.

Animals can gain valuable information using their chemosenses

Find prey Detect predators Check food Recognise others defence Mark territory Communication Sexual attraction Alarm signals Make a trail (e.g. ants)

Hearing The human ear can hear from 20 to Hz

Bats can hear up to over Hz (ultrasonic) and use echolocation

Dogs’ range is 40 Hz to Hz

Dolphins and other cetaceans use sound for echolocation

A few more ranges

Infrasound Animals such as whales and elephants use deep infrasound to communicate over long distances

Electric field detection Many fish can detect electric fields. Some produce their own field and use it to detect objects around them. Conductors (e.g. animals) distort the field differently from resistors (e.g. rocks)

The electric eel

The platypus detects the tiny electric output of its prey such as shrimps.

Magnetic field detection The Earth has a magnetic field

Animals such as pigeons, turtles and trout use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate. Te Mutu