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The squid species Loligo pealii is the object of biologist Aran Mooney's research on the mechanism of hearing for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.LiveScience
Squid can hear, scientists have confirmed. But they don't detect the changes in pressure associated with sound waves, like we do. They have another, more primitive, technique for listening: They sense the motion generated by sound waves.
"They are detecting themselves moving back and forth with the sound wave," said T. Aran Mooney, a marine biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. He compared a squid in the ocean being jostled by a sound wave to a piece of fruit suspended in
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