Index
taxon-specific compounds 261
teleost fish 215, 219
telephoto system, spider eye 174
temperature 271, 272, 273,
inversion 65, 66
temporal comparison I 0
resolving, photoreceptors 181
summation, neural201, 205
Tenebrio molitor, magnetic compass 294
termites, magnetic compass 308
Tettigonia viridissima 62
Thamneus, compound eye 207, 208
Thaumetopea pityocampa 245
thermoreception 271 ff
thermoreceptor 2 71 ff
tip pore sensilla 276, 277, 280
tipulids, photoreceptors 180
tobacco hornworm 241
Torpedo, electric signals 314
torsional restoring constant S, filiform
hairs I 08, 112, 115, 116, 117
torus semicircularis !53
Toxorhynchytes brevipalpis, compound
eye 204, 205, 205, 206
trail following 161
transmission
channel60
characteristics 70
information 174
trichobothria I 05ff
Tritonia, magnetic compass 308
tuberous organs 316
tuna 181
tuning 20
molecular 24
spectral 20
turbidity, vision 218
turnip moth 244
twilight 219
Utetheisa ornatrix 248
UV sensitivity 217, 229
vapor pressure 239, 273, 274
vegetation and habitat, sound
propagation 81
velocity
angular 114
detector I 07ff, !53
distribution I 07
sound propagation 71
vibration communication 127ff
drumming 136ff
frogs 129
Love wavesl29
Rayleigh waves 129
sensitivity 130ff
signals 131 ff
vertebrates 130ff
vibrissae, seal 162
Vireo, acoustic signalling 95
visual
adaptions 205
angle 201
ecology 215
fields 207
streak 193 199
volatiles 257
bouquets 259, 260
compounds, 261
green leaf 260
pheromone 240
volatility 239
341
Volucella pellucens, compound eye 195,
196, 198
warm cell, thermoreception 275, 278
warning odor 249
wasp, compound eye 204
water strider 193
waves
compressional 128
ground 68
love 128, 129
primary 128
Rayleigh 128
shear 128
sound 40
weakly electric fish 313, 315
whale, eye size 170
whole-body vibrations 129
Wiener kernel analysis 134, 135
woodpeckers 88ff
Xenopus laevis, lateral line !51, !56
zebra, eye size 170
Zophobas, compound eye 205