vestigial structure-
such as the human appendix, doesn't seem to have a function and may once have functioned in the body of an ancestor..:)
Vestigal structure
There are 3 muscles in the human ear. Interestingly cats, although small has 32 muscles in their ears.
there are really know muscles in there ear but the tishew feels like a muscle
You can't move the ears so there is no muscles that can move the ears.
EAR
the human ear has 9 parts Anatomically: Pinna (ear flap), meatus (ear canal), ear drum, malleus (hammer), incus (anvil), stapes (stirrup), cochlea, semicircular canals, auditory nerve, a total of 9 parts. Source: www.anatomyandphysiologyquiz.com
Humans do not need to move their ears to hear, but those muscles have nothing to do with hearing sound (there are muscles in the middle ear which do) BUT with the location of sound. The shape of the human ear is a type of phase-delay echo chamber; this phase delay gives us an up-down orientation to a sound. The phase difference of the sound from each ear gives us right-left orientation. This method is much quicker than turning either the ears OR the head to locate a sound source.
32 in each ear, 64 ear muscles in total.
how many muscles in an elephant's ear
No, its cats who have 32 muscles in each ear, not humans.
Ear muscles.
yes because when you smile your ears move
It is not true a cat has 32 muscels in its ear