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Sensitive High-Frequency Hearing In Earless And Partially Eared Harlequin Frogs (Atelopus), Molly C. Womack, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, Luis A. Coloma, Kim L. Hoke
Sensitive High-Frequency Hearing In Earless And Partially Eared Harlequin Frogs (Atelopus), Molly C. Womack, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, Luis A. Coloma, Kim L. Hoke
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Harlequin frogs, genus Atelopus, communicate at high frequencies despite most species lacking a complete tympanic middle ear that facilitates high-frequency hearing in most anurans and other tetrapods. Here, we tested whether Atelopus are better at sensing high-frequency acoustic sound compared with other eared and earless species in the Bufonidae family, determined whether middle ear variation within Atelopus affects hearing sensitivity and tested potential hearing mechanisms in Atelopus. We determined that at high frequencies (2000‚Äì4000‚ÄÖHz), Atelopus are 10‚Äì34‚ÄÖdB more sensitive than other earless bufonids but are relatively insensitive to mid-range frequencies (900‚Äì1500‚ÄÖHz) compared with eared bufonids. Hearing among Atelopus species is …