BIOL-104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Proprioception
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General map was made for detecting the sea routes. Peter(cid:859)s proje(cid:272)tio(cid:374) shape of continents stretched but the area is correct. Sensory ecology deals with how an organism obtains information from the environment (mechanism/ proximate) and why that information is useful to the organism (function/ ultimate) Acclimation / acclimatization short-term responses for that one generation; occurs over weeks-months; physiological or behavioral response that allows you to deal with a particular feature of the environment. We tend to think that the way we sense the environment is the way that the environment is, but it all filters through our own personal experiences. We have five/six sense: sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing, proprioception (sometimes considered a sense knowing where you are in space) Other animals can sense: heat, ele(cid:272)tri(cid:272)al (cid:272)urre(cid:374)ts, (cid:272)he(cid:373)i(cid:272)al gradie(cid:374)ts, polarized light, earth(cid:859)s magnetic field, etc. There are organisms that can sense these and we humans cannot!
