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October 5

What animal has the most wideband eyeball?

And what's the most wideband eye with at least 3 kinds of cone cells? Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 22:11, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:12, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Like this but with eyes instead of ears. -- Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 00:59, 6 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mantis shrimp have upto 16 types of photoreceptor, from deep ultraviolet (300 nm) to far-red (720 nm), as well as being sensitive to polarization. nagualdesign 23:12, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Multiple sources:
- Fay, R.R. (1988). Hearing in Vertebrates: A Psychophysics Databook. Winnetka, IL: Hill-Fay Associates. ISBN 9780961855901. LCCN 88091030.
- D Warfield. 1973. The study of hearing in animals. In: W Gay, ed., Methods of Animal Experimentation, IV. Academic Press, London, pp 43-143.
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Multiple sources:
- Fay and AN Popper, eds. 1994. Comparative Hearing: Mammals. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research Series. Springer-Verlag, NY.
- CD West. 1985. The relationship of the spiral turns of the cochela and the length of the basilar membrane to the range of audible frequencies in ground dwelling mammals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 77:1091-1101.
- EA Lipman and JR Grassi. 1942. Comparative auditory sensitivity of man and dog. Amer J Psychol 55:84-89.
- HE Heffner. 1983. Hearing in large and small dogs: Absolute thresholds and size of the tympanic membrane. Behav Neurosci 97:310-318.

[fay1988hearing-1] Multiple sources:
Fay, R.R. (1988). Hearing in Vertebrates: A Psychophysics Databook. Winnetka, IL: Hill-Fay Associates. ISBN 9780961855901. LCCN 88091030.

D Warfield. 1973. The study of hearing in animals. In: W Gay, ed., Methods of Animal Experimentation, IV. Academic Press, London, pp 43-143.

[2] Fay, R.R. (1988). Hearing in Vertebrates: A Psychophysics Databook. Winnetka, IL: Hill-Fay Associates. ISBN 9780961855901. LCCN 88091030.

[3] D Warfield. 1973. The study of hearing in animals. In: W Gay, ed., Methods of Animal Experimentation, IV. Academic Press, London, pp 43-143.

[2] Multiple sources:
Fay and AN Popper, eds. 1994. Comparative Hearing: Mammals. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research Series. Springer-Verlag, NY.

CD West. 1985. The relationship of the spiral turns of the cochela and the length of the basilar membrane to the range of audible frequencies in ground dwelling mammals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 77:1091-1101.

EA Lipman and JR Grassi. 1942. Comparative auditory sensitivity of man and dog. Amer J Psychol 55:84-89.

HE Heffner. 1983. Hearing in large and small dogs: Absolute thresholds and size of the tympanic membrane. Behav Neurosci 97:310-318.

[5] Fay and AN Popper, eds. 1994. Comparative Hearing: Mammals. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research Series. Springer-Verlag, NY.

[6] CD West. 1985. The relationship of the spiral turns of the cochela and the length of the basilar membrane to the range of audible frequencies in ground dwelling mammals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 77:1091-1101.

[7] EA Lipman and JR Grassi. 1942. Comparative auditory sensitivity of man and dog. Amer J Psychol 55:84-89.

[8] HE Heffner. 1983. Hearing in large and small dogs: Absolute thresholds and size of the tympanic membrane. Behav Neurosci 97:310-318.

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