Question

What is the proper name for ears?
What is the proper name for whiskers?
and what is their function?

Confusing three questions...help me?

Answer 1

I just thought they were called, ears and whiskers.

Answer 2

Ear's help you hear, and whiskers just show that (If you a guy) you a Man LOL

Answer 3

OK, the first two are just vocabulary. Um, generally things related to ears are said to be "otic" so perhaps that is the first word it's looking for.

And virbrisae are whiskers.

Answer 4

O.o

Answer 5

Vibrissae, watch me spell it right.

Answer 6

Huh, interesting. We never went over any of these words

Answer 7

Well, that's what they standard scientific names are. :) We have had some instances in this group with schools not teaching the ordinary, standard scientific terms and people being unhappy with the wrong answers... But I stand by those.

Answer 8

should I put the scientific name?

Answer 9

oh lol I see what ya did there

Answer 10

Piperaceae- Rat ears

Answer 11

:)

Wow. That is a word from 3rd year of college course on very specialised mammalian biology. Brings back a lot of memories.

Answer 12

lol
I dissected a rat today.

Answer 13

Dissections were...many things. I don't miss 'em. Never liked cutting up dead things.

Answer 14

YUP.

Answer 15

Anyway, inside an ear there are all these fine, thin structures. These vibrate when they are hit by sound waves of various different frequencies. Nerves inside them realise that they are vibrating, and send a message to the brain that, "Hey, I was just hit by low frequency sound waves," and the brain translates that into, "I hear a very low sound."

Clear?

Answer 16

We are working on #3 now - what ears and whiskers have in common.

Answer 17

Mmmm...yesh. Clear.
i wrote they are sensory organs on my paper

Answer 18

well, "external ears" are called pinna

Answer 19

They are both sensory organs - but their mechanism is similar. That is the point.

Answer 20

okay

Answer 21

ear drum .. tympanum (like in frog)

Answer 22

It turns out that whiskers are long, thin and stiff - and vibrate when touched much like all those fine structures inside the ear.

Answer 23

I don't think pinna would work tho, I will write it and ask tho! @electrokid

Answer 24

the whiskers on my rat weren't stiff tho..

Answer 25

its for "external" ears. though

Answer 26

OK, if the rat came out of a bucket of chemicals, that would have a lot to do with it. Think about a cat's whiskers, and how if you poke one end of the whisker the cat will feel it. Whereas if you posted something very bendy, like the end of a human hair, it would have a lot less distortion and a lot less sensation on the other end.

Answer 27

Mine was preserved lol

Answer 28

This LOOKS COLOURFUL.....

Answer 29

What is the proper name for ears?
What is the proper name for whiskers?
and what is their function?

Confusing three questions...help me?


1. Proper name for an ear = Pinna
2. Proper name for a whisker = vibrissa
3. Function of each = Ear responds to touch and sound, Vibrissa respond to touch.