Index
magnetoreception 289, 296, 297
based on magnetite 298
by photopigments 297
wavelength dependence 300
Malacosteus niger, visual pigments 222,
223,224
Malaysian tree frog, seismic
communication 131, 143
mammals 43, 50, 52, 170, 292
Manduca sexta, pheromone 241, 244
mantid shrimps 217
marine
slug 308
turtles 292, 306
mass, added or virtual I 07, Ill
matched filter 193, 196, 197, 199
mate-guarding 96
mating types 14
meadow, sound transmission 70
mechanical waves in elastic solids 128
mechanoreceptors
cutaneous 129
cuticular hairs 105ff
metabolic
cost 169, 177, 179, 180
energy 172
rate 180
resting 182
total 182
Metrioptera sphagnorum, calling
behavior 6 I, 62, 63
Microlinyphia, pheromone 243
Microplitis croceipes, plant volatiles
265
migration
birds 292
innate courses 305, 306
migratory
behavior 305
locust 278
species 229
model calculations 20, I 05
moist cell 273, 274
mole crickets 46
mole-rat 130, 136, 172, 295, 302, 307
monarch butterfly, migration 306
monopole source, sound production 44
moonlight, vision 2 I 9
mormyrids 318
mormyriforms 316
mormyromasts 323
Mormyrus rume 321
mosquito 50, 188, 204, 206
moth 50, 199, 203, 248, 278
motion vectors, vision 199
motion-sensing hairs I 05ff
MUller's organ, tympanum 53, 54
Musca domestica 181, 240
myriapods, vision 188
Myrmothera campanisoma 92, 93
natural
hydrodynamic stimuli !56
images 176
stimulus 150
Nauphoeta cinerea, pheromone 242
navigation 314
navigational map 307
Neriene, pheromone 243
neural
information 177
summation 201
superposition 190
neuromast !50
newt, magnetic compass 298
noctuid moths 51
noise 6, 92
chemical 242
environmental 73
transducer 192
vision 192
Notonecta glauca 20, 194
Notophthalmus viridescens 293, 298
notopteriforms, electroreception 316
numerical approach
mechanoreceptor physics I 06
Ocybadistes, vision 188
Ocypode ceratophthalamus, vision 188,
194
Oecanthus, sound production 46
olfaction 253
olfactory
information 257
receptors 261
responses 264
omega-neuron 62, 74
ommatidia 189fT
337