A new study has revealed that spiders are not only using their webs to hear but to tell where sound is coming from.
, with three decades in the making, has revealed that spiders are not only using their webs to hear but to tell where sound is coming from.
"The spider is really a natural demonstration that this is a viable way to sense sound using viscous forces in the air on thin fibers," Miles said.Miles' previous research has led to the invention of novel microphone designs that are based on hearing in insects. The scientists used pure tone sound from three metres away at various sound levels to check if the spiders responded.The sound source was then angled at a 45-degree angle to test if the spiders responded differently. They discovered that the spiders can not only locate the sound source, but they can also accurately predict the sound's upcoming direction.
"Of course, the real question is, if the web is moving like that, does the spider hear using it?" Miles said in a release. "That's a hard question to answer."
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