When you go up to a high elevation, your ears pop. Ouch!

-- Animals hear better than humans.

-- Once you've lost your hearing it's gone!
-- The three small bones in the middle ear are called ossicles.
-- The middle ear receives air via the Eustachian tube, which is connected to the throat.
-- There are 20,000 hair cells in the Corti.
-- The most common ear disorder is called otitis media, which is a disorder of the middle ear.

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10 FUN FACTS ABOUT HEARING

q Fish do not have ears, but they can hear pressure changes through ridges on their body.
w The ear’s malleus, incus and stapes (otherwise known as the hammer, anvil and stirrup) are the smallest
bones in the human body. All three together could fit together on a penny.
e The ear continues to hear sounds, even while you sleep.
r Sound travels at the speed of 1,130 feet per second, or 770 miles per hour.
t Dogs can hear much higher frequencies than humans.
y Ears not only help you hear, but also aid in balance.
u Snakes hear through the jaw bone and through a traditional inner ear. In essence, snakes have two distinct
hearing mechanisms, which helps them hear and catch prey.
i Sitting in front of the speakers at a rock concert can expose you to 120 decibels, which will begin to damage
hearing in only 7 1/2 minutes.
o Thirty-seven percent of children with only minimal hearing loss fail at least one grade.
a Male mosquitoes hear with thousands of tiny hairs growing on their antennae.

Ten facts about ears you may not have known.

1. Both the smallest muscle and the smallest bone in the human body are in the ears. The
muscle is called the stapedius, and paralysis of this muscle can cause hyperacusis.
This condition causes normal sounds to appear extremely loud.
2. The smallet bone is called the stapes or stirrup bone, and plays an integral part in the
hearing process.
3. Lobsters know that they are the right way up underwater by keeping sand in their ears.
Gravity keeps it at the bottom of their ears. Researchers once replaced the sand with
iron filings and used a magnet to move them around, fooling the Lobsters into
flipping upside down.
4. Spiders do not have ears at all, and instead hear through tiny hairs on their legs. This
isn’t as strange as it sounds as inside human ears approximately 15,000 tiny hairs
allow us to hear a whisper from many feet away.
5. Loud noise can destroy these hair cells, which are irreplaceable. If you’re right next to
someone and still have to shout to be heard, then you can be pretty much guaranteed
that you’re doing damage to your ears.
6. Human hearing starts getting worse at about the age of 20.
7. The praying mantis has only one ear, located in the centre of its chest. Crickets have
their ears on their legs, while cicadas have them on their stomach.
8. The tufts on owls that look like ears are only for display purposes. Their ears are in
fact on the sides of their faces, usually right on the outer edge of the ring of feathers
around their eyes. The ears are positioned at different heights on the head, allowing an
owl to know which vertical dierction a sound is coming from, as well as which
horizontal direction.
9. The ancients Chinese used to think that ears indicated character and destiny. Long
earlobes meant a long life, while thick ones meant wealth.
10. They also believed that longer earlobes indicated a more noble person. Liu Bei,
founder of the Han dynasty in AD221 had ears that supposedly reached his shoulders.
11. The middle ear is no bigger than an M&M.
12. The cochlea (inner ear) is about the size of an eraser.
13. The ear never stops working. Even when people are asleep, the ear continues to hear
sounds, but the brain shuts them out.
14. In Africa, a tribe of people call Maabans live in such quiet that they can hear a
whisper from across a baseball field.
15. For several years now, the military has used bone conduction in headsets for soldiers.
The near negligible impedance from outside sounds can be used to provide better
radio transmissions for communications systems in the field.