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bri

@gay_ornithischians @futurebird there isn’t a ton of info on these leggy pals out there, but! it is common for isopods to have both antennae and antennulae, both being sensory organs! so i suspect that’s the case here… ahhh isopods are neat ☺️

yesterday at 3:50 | Wall-to-wall | Open on digipres.club
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violator

@brhfl @gay_ornithischians @futurebird what's the difference between an antenna and an antennule?

yesterday at 3:56 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
bri

@violator @gay_ornithischians @futurebird so, i'm no expert, i just read a lot of bio journals... but my understanding is that we're in the early days of figuring that out.

murray thomson seems to be leading the charge on such studies, and a lot of the hypotheses seem to be around the physical differences and the ways these interact differently with water (differing depths, currents, etc.)

he's also hypothesized that the longer antennae get 'flicked' about, akin to a sniff!

yesterday at 4:17 | Open on digipres.club
Ian K Tindale

@brhfl @violator @gay_ornithischians @futurebird I have a theory which I’ll keep to myself or people will think I’m bonkers

Oh okay you’ve talked me into it

We’re humans, our ears are not just acoustic sensory organs but the earlobes themselves are radio-like and aerial-like and perform sensing that we’re not really aware of because we haven’t thought about it in such a way so we’re not looking in that direction to recognise it, but the ear structure and proximity to the brain allows it to be basically a diversity aerial for – er, something, possibly signals, possibly environmental information, possibly transmitted information, possibly using energy we haven’t yet recognised or detected and therefore haven’t labelled so that we can even conceive of it yet

(Also, not just humans, any animal with ears and an ear structure)

So there

@brhfl @violator @gay_ornithischians @futurebird I have a theory which I’ll keep to myself or people will think I’m bonkers

Oh okay you’ve talked me into it

We’re humans, our ears are not just acoustic sensory organs but the earlobes themselves are radio-like and aerial-like and perform sensing that we’re not really aware of because we haven’t thought about it in such a way so we’re not looking in that direction to recognise it, but the ear structure and proximity to the brain allows it to be basically...

yesterday at 8:18 | Open on toot.pikopublish.ing
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