Can the fishes hear?
How does fishes hear
The most surprising fact about fishes is that you cannot hear them but they can certainly hear you. Fishes are very well-equipped for hearing. They have a pair of ears. These ears do not have an outer projection as we have but are simply tiny holes on either side of the head leading to the inner ear. Since there is ears are probably not as effective as our own. But the fishes have other ways of picking up sounds of vibrations in the water. Along each side of the fishs body is a line of little holes or pores which can also pick up vibrations and changes in pressure inside water and pass on the message to the brain.
This line of pores is called the lateral line, and can be seen quite easily. By using this lateral line a fish can avoid all obstacles when it is extremely sensitive to pressure changes caused by the vibrations of another fish or some other objects. A fishes lateral line contains sensory cells which provide the fish with all the information of events going on around it. These are the different mechanisms in the fishes by which they can even hear very feeble sounds.