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“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

“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

“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

“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