Hearing is a major sensory channel for most animals. For animals living both in air and under water, adapting their senses to both environments is a major challenge. Here we study how seals, penguins and other marine animals have adapted their hearing abilities to function both in air and underwater. We study the functional physiology of hearing in these animals through a range of experiments, both in Kerteminde at the Marine Biological Research Center, and at Long Marine Laboratory in Santa Cruz, California (part of the UCSC campus).
Grant Provider: FNU
Total Amount of Grant: 2,562,912
Period: August 2014 – July 2017
Grant No.: 4002-00536