Do insects have ears?

Moment of Um

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

There are all different kinds of ears in the world: big floppy elephant ears, fuzzy rabbit ears – even teeny squirrel ears smaller than a dime! But what about insects? Do they have ears? We asked insect expert Meredith Cenzer to help us find the answer.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:03.2	Answering those questions that make you go,
0:07.8	Oh, uh, uh, uh, no.
0:10.0	Um, um, um, um, um, um, um.
0:11.6	Um, um, um, um. Moment of um,
0:15.0	Um, um, um, moment of um,
0:16.0	moment of um, um,
0:20.0	moment of um comes to you from 8PM studios.
0:25.2	I'm Shayla Farzan.
0:26.7	Um.
0:30.7	This is my new best friend, Margaret.
0:33.0	She's a ladybug.
0:35.0	She flew through my window a couple minutes ago, and we became really good friends,
0:39.0	really fast.
0:40.0	We have the same favorite color, red.
0:43.0	We both like spending long afternoons in the garden,
0:46.0	and we both love romantic comedies.
0:49.0	Some people might think it's weird to sit for hours
0:52.0	with your ladybug best friend watching
0:54.0	sleepless in Seattle for the hundredth time, but those people have probably never had a ladybug
0:59.3	best friend. You know, I thought we have lots of other things in common too.
1:04.0	Like, maybe we have the same taste in music.
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