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Many insects, like other terrestrial animals, use their sense of hearing to detect and locate potential predators or prey, and mates or rivals. While... The order of scaly-winged insects, including the butterflies, skippers, and moths. One of the largest orders in the class Insecta, the Lepidoptera... The perception of sound by animals through specialized sense organs. A sense of hearing is possessed by animals belonging to two divisions of the... The study of the functional properties of insect tissues and organs. Insects are one of the most diverse groups of animals on Earth. They have... A discipline within the field of animal behavior that focuses upon the reception and use of signals. Animal communication could well include all of... The common name for any of 25 species of rodents in the genus Tamias of the mammalian family Sciuridae. Chipmunks... The biological sonar that bats, porpoises, and certain other animals use to navigate without the visual system. Several different groups of animals... A class of the phylum Arthropoda, sometimes called the Hexapoda. In fact, Hexapoda is a superclass consisting of both Insecta and the related class... The single order of the mammalian subclass Prototheria. Two living families, the Tachyglossidae and the Ornithorhynchidae, make up this unusual order... An order that includes over 20,000 species of terrestrial insects, including most of the “singing” insects, some of the world's largest insects, and... A rare insectivorous mammal classified in the family Solenodontidae. Solenodons are among the largest living insectivores. There are only two extant... Echolocation refers to an animal's use of sound reflections to localize objects and to orient in the environment. Echolocating animals transmit... The study of the neural basis of animal behavior. Any type of behavior may be studied, but many researchers concentrate on complex behavior such as... |
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