Hearing in the Dark
November 2020
In: ECO Magazine, Deep Sea special issue
“Life in the depths is adapted to wholly different conditions than exist near the surface, with increasingly high static pressure and decreasing or no light. Here, animals create their own light through bioluminescence. What of their hearing abilities? To understand how deep-sea animals perceive their environment, a group of Australian experts joined an international research expedition in the Indian Ocean. The question was whether deep-sea fish have a keener sense of hearing compared to their shallow-water counterparts.”
Contributed by JASCO’s Roberto Racca and Klaus Lucke.
