What Can We Learn from Animals?

[Codaz]

What strikes me is that there is so little research on the hearing of animals. I know that test drugs on animals is preventable and in the future maybe not needed anymore. But what happens when animals get it? We know rats get it, but how about other animals? What about monkeys, since they have a similar brain to us. What is known about animal ears and auditory nerves? There are so many questions yet so little answers.

I'm not wishing any person or creature in the world T, to be clear. But we must understand before we can solve. Do ears of animals heal, do the brains of animals heal the T?

 

[Ears Hurt]

Humans are the stupid animals that go around blasting their ears with music, taking toxic medication, and such.

 

[Codaz]

Humans are the stupid animals that go around blasting their ears with music, taking toxic medication, and such.

This is not what this post is about...

 

[Ears Hurt]

@Codaz I know and I didn't mean to offend. I was just being frustrated the other day. I was just pointing out that I am sure animals don't suffer from tinnitus like humans, because they aren't exposure to the traumas that humans inflict on their ears.

However, I think we should be studying different animals ears and hearing to see how theirs differs from ours. It might lead to a cure for humans by gaining more knowledge and understanding the ear/brain relationship. Perhaps, they are doing studies we don't know about, because isn't that they way they confirmed birds and fish are able to regenerate their hearing. Certainly, it is an interesting topic.

 

[Reinier]

If I remember correctly I read other mammals can have tinnitus too.
I suppose they will not think about it. For them it is a fact of life.
It is not always noise induced. Sometimes something goes wrong and a monkey can have tinnitus too I suppose.
I think there already are a lot of answers. But the hearing system (hearing/brains/processing in the brain) is so complex that much more insight is needed.
Fortunately for birds their ears heal.
So I also wonder if there is a bird on this planet with tinnitus.

 

[Ears Hurt]

Internally coupled ears enable directional hearing in animals
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160218133146.htm

 

[Beste]

Why is hearing system is so much misery still? It is a big freaking shame of science.

 

[GregCA]

However, I think we should be studying different animals ears and hearing to see how theirs differs from ours

We are.

 

[linearb]

different animal models of tinnitus use different behavioral correlates; lots have been done with rats, but also rabbits, monkeys, etc. The work that's been done at the university of Michigan over the past few years involved inducing unilateral tinnitus in rabbits...

 

[Codaz]

Birds ears heal? Is that confirmed?

 

[GregCA]

Birds ears heal? Is that confirmed?

Yes

 

[Lorac]

When I was a child, we had a dog that went completely deaf. Now I sometimes wonder if the poor baby had tinnitus too.
I had to tape our dogs metal tags together when my T and H started three years ago because the clanking sound drove me crazy every time they moved. That made me consider that the clanking sound might hurt their ears also, so I don't put the metal tags on their collars any longer.

 

[Kar4]

I wonder, if there can be noticed any change of animal's (e.g. dog's) behavior, when we know that it have hearing damaged most probably followed by tinnitus?

 

[volsung37]

Inducing tinnitus in any sentient being is wrong.

 

[Codaz]

I wonder, if there can be noticed any change of animal's (e.g. dog's) behavior, when we know that it have hearing damaged most probably followed by tinnitus?

Don't know, maybe they use the same hearing tests used on babies?

 

[Kar4]

Don't know, maybe they use the same hearing tests used on babies?

Well, dogs can hear much better than people. And you can notice, that they don't care much to avoid loud noises. (although when distracted by sudden noise, they can go really mad...)
and dog's bark can be very loud - imagine two dogs standing in front each other and barking.
I think it must be quite common, that they partially lost hearing - or have damaged certain ammount of cells of inner ear?
Maybe dogs are through myriads years of evolution adapted to it and their brain is able to complete filter tinnitus. Or even not generate it??