{"id":1078,"date":"2009-10-27T16:06:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T20:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2009-10-27T16:06:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T20:06:25","slug":"hearing-on-the-wing-new-structure-discovered-in-butterfly-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2009\/hearing-on-the-wing-new-structure-discovered-in-butterfly-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing on the wing: New structure discovered in butterfly ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"news-article-lead-in\">\n<p>Publication: University of Bristol<br \/>\nDate: Wednesday October 21st, 2009<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bris.ac.uk\/news\/2009\/6609.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bris.ac.uk\/news\/2009\/6609.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0A clever structure in the ear of a tropical butterfly that potentially makes it able to distinguish between high and low pitch sounds has been discovered by scientists from the University of Bristol.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--Start content-->The team believes that the remarkable structure may be associated with the detection of predators, in particular birds.\u00a0 The Blue Morpho butterflies (<em>Morpho peleides<\/em>), native to Central and South America, are more famous for their amazing wing colouration and now turn out to have ears on their wings.<\/p>\n<p>The research was carried out by scientists working at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio.bris.ac.uk\/\">School of Biological Sciences<\/a>, University of Bristol, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strath.ac.uk\/\">University of Strathclyde<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/\">Carleton University<\/a>, Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeb.biologists.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/212\/21\/3533\">Auditory mechanics and sensitivity in the tropical butterfly <em>Morpho peleides<\/em> (Pampilionoidea, Nymphalidae)<\/a> by Kathleen M. Lucas, James F. C. Windmill, Daniel Robert and Jayne E. Yack\u00a0 <em>The Journal of Experimental Biology<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publication: University of Bristol Date: Wednesday October 21st, 2009 Source: http:\/\/www.bris.ac.uk\/news\/2009\/6609.html \u00a0A clever structure in the ear of a tropical butterfly that potentially makes it able to distinguish between high and low pitch sounds has been discovered by scientists from the University of Bristol. 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