Sing Like Fish Quotes

“So, underwater sound moves faster, goes farther, and loses less energy along the way.”
― Amorina Kingdon, Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

“Water, much denser than air, conducts sound four and a half times faster. (In compressible solids like steel molecules are packed tighter. Sound races at about 5 kilometers per second through stainless.)”
― Amorina Kingdon, Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

“German ethologist Karl von Frisch is perhaps best known for discovering how bees’ flight pattern, also called a waggle dance, communicated the location of food to the hive.”
― Amorina Kingdon, Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

“For humans, our hearing is centered on, and exquisitely sensitive to, the frequencies of our own voices. That suggests communication was a major driver in the evolution of our hearing range. What about fish? As those first early ears evolved, what influenced their development?”
― Amorina Kingdon, Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

“Fish have three otoliths per ear: The largest stone is called the sagitta, and these tiny vials contain sagitta pairs.”
― Amorina Kingdon, Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

“Underwater, sound is different. It travels faster and farther, attenuates slower than in air. Depending on its wavelength, it can move differently in shallow water and deep water, and over long distances it can veer and bend, forming silent “shadow zones” or concentrated sound “channels.”
― Amorina Kingdon, Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

“Invertebrates (and many fish) detect sound not by sensing a sound’s pressure changes but the movement of particles”
― Amorina Kingdon, Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

“Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain: “This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.”
― Amorina Kingdon, Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water