In those animals with mobile ears, they are used to point the external ear in the direction of the sound.
In animals with fixed ears (humans, some apes, some bats) who sound locate by phase delay, those muscles are inhibited from moving to prevent confusion in locating sound.
(Yes, some people can wiggle their ears. Call it a throw-back.)
There are several muscles around the ears (auricularis anterior, superior, and posterior).
Vistigeal muscles that are carried over from a time when our ancestors had more adept hearing and could move their ears to hone in on a sound
. The Embryology moves the human ear
occipitalis
32 in each ear, 64 ear muscles in total.
how many muscles in an elephant's ear
No, its cats who have 32 muscles in each ear, not humans.
Ear muscles.
There are 3 muscles in the human ear. Interestingly cats, although small has 32 muscles in their ears.
there are really know muscles in there ear but the tishew feels like a muscle
Elephant.
Cats have 32 muscles in each ear. This allows the ear to be moved around 180 degrees for directional sound perception and body language.
yes it does it has 32 in one and 32 in the other one so just in one cat there are 64 ear muscles
In the middle ear
There are 16 pairs of muscles in the horses ears that allow mobility.
It is not true a cat has 32 muscels in its ear