Index
focal length 173, 207
food
acceptance 255
preference 255
selection 254
foot-drumming 136, 137, 141
F -ratio, visual optics 17 4
frequency
filtering 62
multiplication 42
frog60, 129,131
bullfrog 13 I
Bushveld rain 131
leopard 135
Malaysian tree 131, 143
white-lipped 130
frontal zone, insect eye 199
Gastropoda, magnetic compass 292
generalist receptors, chemoreception
261
genetic
algorithm 122
drift 30
geomagnetic field 289, 295
geophone recordings 140
Georychus capensis, seismical
sensitivity 130, 136, 137
ghost crab 188, 194
giraffe, eye size 170
Gnathonemus petersii 315, 318, 321
goatfish, vision 229
golden mole 130, 139
goldfish, lateral line 152
PLLN fiber 154, 158
gradient detection I 0
ground waves 68
Gryllus campestris 44, 46, 68
gymnotiform, electroreception 316ff
Gymnotus carapo 315, 325
habitat
aquatic, see aquatic habitat
bright light 188, 190
dim light 188, 190, 199ff, 204
extreme 187
flatl93
selection 88
Habronestes bradleyi 238
hair
in air 120
in water 120
length 113, 114
motion-sensing I 05ff
sensitivity 119
handicap principle 96
harbor seals 161, 162
hawkmoth 20, 181, 188, 191,200
head drumming 136
hearing, impedance matching 49ff
Heliophobius 136
Helmholtz resonator 48
335
Hemigrapsus sanguineus, visual pigments
26,28
Hepialus californicus, pheromone 246
hecta 246
humili 246
herbivores 260
Herpsilochmus dorsimaculatus, acoustic
communication 93
homing behavior 307
pigeons 300
honeybee 181,188,238,276,282,308
horn, acoustic 4 7
host -plant 261, 262
housefly 181, 240
hoverfly 181, 195, 199
human visual system 176
humidity 271, 272
absolute 283
reception 271
relative 283, 273
hydrodynamic
sensory system 149
stimuli 115
hygro-mechanical transducer 282
hygrometers 280, 282, 283
electrochemical 280, 283
mechanical 280
hygroreception 27Iff
hygroreceptor 280, 283
hygrothermoreceptive sensillum 273, 274,
275,277,279
Hyla cineraria, sound production 46
Hymenoptera 28, 239
Idea, pheromones
leuconoe 248. 249