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@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!
@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...