Overview of sensory organs with humans and animals arranged according to the adequate attractions:

Perception of physical attractions

Light

The electromagnetic radiation visible with the eye is called light. Animals can notice also the shorter-wave ultraviolet light. Humans over heat receptors of the skin than warmth take the longer-wave infrared light were. Infrarrot is likewise noticed however of some animals as "“light"” over eyes or special organs.

• Ultraviolet light: Eye many insects, some reptiles, some birds
• Visible light: Wavelength 380 Nm (violet) to 760 Nm (red): Eye (sense of face)
• Infrared radiation/warmth: Wavelength 750 Nm - 0.01 mm: Warming and cooling receptors in the skin (temperature perception) and pit organs with queues or over the eyes with some deep sea fish

Sound

* Ultrasonic: Wavelength 100 m (200kHz) - 8 km (~20 kHz) ear of certain animals such as bats and Delfine

• 20 kHz - 16 cycles per second ear (sense of hearing) of humans

* Infraschall: 16 cycles per second - close 0 cycles per second: Ear of certain animals such as elephants and owls and flowing transition to the Tastsinn

• Oscillations: Palpation receptors (vibration) in the skin (Tastsinn) and palpation hair and vibration receptors with insects and spiders

Pressure and movement

• Pressure: Palpation receptors in the skin (Tastsinn)
• Contact: Palpation receptors in the skin (Tastsinn)

• Water pressure and - movement: Collateral line organ with fish

• Movement: Organ of equilibrium in the interior ear (sense of balance)
• Position of the parts of the body: Stretching receptors in the muscles and joints, Chordotonalorgan with insects

Perception of chemical attractions

• Nose (sense of smell)
• Taste buds on the tongue (sense of taste)

Perception of electrical fields

• Lorenzini ampuls with sharks and skates
• Perception of electrical fields with some robbery fish (electrical fish) like Zitteraal and trembling skates

Perception of magnetic fields

• Perception of the earth's magnetic field (not only) with migratory birds due to a sense of magnet (with robins in the eye, with pigeons in the bill skin)

See also

• Senses
• Sensory substitution

Related links

• http://www.physiology.de/hvsinne/auge/seh01.htm
• http://www.physiology.de/hvsinne/hoeren/audioin.htm
• http://www.physiology.de/hvsinne/haut/hautin.htm

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