Fish can tell the direction of sounds — here’s how

It’s known that fish have directional hearing, but the exact mechanism has eluded researchers for decades.

Read the paper: The mechanism for directional hearing in fish

Now, a team of researchers have demonstrated that some fish can independently detect two components of a soundwave — pressure and particle motion — and combine this information to identify where a sound comes from.

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