Outsourced hearing in an orb-weaving spider that uses its web as an auditory sensor

Autor:	Jian Zhou, Junpeng Lai, Gil Menda, Jay A. Stafstrom, Carol I. Miles, Ronald R. Hoy, Ronald N. Miles
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Multidisciplinary Hearing Predatory Behavior Auditory Perception Silk Animals Spiders Biological Evolution
Zdroj:	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119
ISSN:	1091-6490 0027-8424
Popis:	Significance The sense of hearing in all known animals relies on possessing auditory organs that are made up of cellular tissues and constrained by body sizes. We show that hearing in the orb-weaving spider is functionally outsourced to its extended phenotype, the proteinaceous self-manufactured web, and hence processes behavioral controllability. This finding opens new perspectives on animal extended cognition and hearing—the outsourcing and supersizing of auditory function in spiders. This study calls for reinvestigation of the remarkable evolutionary ecology and sensory ecology in spiders—one of the oldest land animals. The sensory modality of outsourced hearing provides a unique model for studying extended and regenerative sensing and presents new design features for inspiring novel acoustic flow detectors.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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