The ability of elasmobranchs to detect and use sound cues has been heavily debated in previous research and has only recently received revived attention. To properly understand the importance of sound to elasmobranchs, assessing their responses to acoustic stimuli in a field setting is vital. Here, we establish a behavioural audiogram of free-swimming male and female southern stingrays (Hypanus americanus) exposed to low-frequency tones. We demonstrate that female stingrays exposed to tones (50-500 Hz) exhibit significant changes in swimming behaviours (increased time spent swimming, decreased rest time, increased surface breaches and increased side swimming with pectoral flapping) at 140 dB re 1 µPa (−2.08 to −2.40 dB re 1 m s−2) while mal...
The ability to hear is crucial to an animal’s survival. Fish have developed complex hearing mechanis...
Many fishes rely on their auditory skills to interpret crucial information about predators and prey,...
Fish live in a world that is not silent. In fact, fish hear low frequency sounds and may need them...
Elasmobranchs are an important component of the marine ecosystem that face obvious anthropogenic thr...
A report on the auditory capabilities and their associated functions of elasmobranch fishes along wi...
The hearing abilities of elasmobranch fishes were examined in response to several types of stimuli u...
Anthropogenic sources increasingly contribute to the underwater soundscape and this may negatively i...
We present the first behavioral measurements of auditory sensitivity for Pollimyrus. Pollimyrus adsp...
The effect of sound on the behaviour of sharks has not been investigated since the 1970s. Sound is, ...
Hearing ability is well studied across teleost fishes in general, and vertebrates more broadly, but ...
Simple SummaryTo date there is not much information regard the role that sounds may play in the life...
Toothed whales have evolved to live in extremely different habitats and yet they all rely strongly o...
peer reviewedAcoustic communication is an important part of social behaviour of fish species that li...
Elevated levels of anthropogenic noise, especially those observed through boating activity, can nega...
Sea lamprey are invasive in the Laurentian Great Lakes and parasitically feed on valued fishes. Mig...
The ability to hear is crucial to an animal’s survival. Fish have developed complex hearing mechanis...
Many fishes rely on their auditory skills to interpret crucial information about predators and prey,...
Fish live in a world that is not silent. In fact, fish hear low frequency sounds and may need them...
Elasmobranchs are an important component of the marine ecosystem that face obvious anthropogenic thr...
A report on the auditory capabilities and their associated functions of elasmobranch fishes along wi...
The hearing abilities of elasmobranch fishes were examined in response to several types of stimuli u...
Anthropogenic sources increasingly contribute to the underwater soundscape and this may negatively i...
We present the first behavioral measurements of auditory sensitivity for Pollimyrus. Pollimyrus adsp...
The effect of sound on the behaviour of sharks has not been investigated since the 1970s. Sound is, ...
Hearing ability is well studied across teleost fishes in general, and vertebrates more broadly, but ...
Simple SummaryTo date there is not much information regard the role that sounds may play in the life...
Toothed whales have evolved to live in extremely different habitats and yet they all rely strongly o...
peer reviewedAcoustic communication is an important part of social behaviour of fish species that li...
Elevated levels of anthropogenic noise, especially those observed through boating activity, can nega...
Sea lamprey are invasive in the Laurentian Great Lakes and parasitically feed on valued fishes. Mig...
The ability to hear is crucial to an animal’s survival. Fish have developed complex hearing mechanis...
Many fishes rely on their auditory skills to interpret crucial information about predators and prey,...
Fish live in a world that is not silent. In fact, fish hear low frequency sounds and may need them...