Prof Dr Jannis Hildebrandt
Department for Neuroscience

Presenter: NDR 1 Niedersachsen
Gong: Robin (10 years old)
Camera: Mathis (11 years old)

You've probably heard it before: on a summer's day, the meadow is buzzing with the song of grasshoppers, or on holiday in the Mediterranean you can hear the amazingly loud chirping of cicadas in a tree.
But how do these little animals manage to make such loud noises? And why do the insects sing at all? How can their conspecifics perceive the sounds? Do they have ears like us?

In the lecture, you will learn which insects make which sounds, how they produce them and how other insects perceive their songs. We will also explain how insects' hearing differs from that of humans. And why we can still learn something about our own hearing when we study insects.