Dragon hearing

[Jerry Roosevelt]

I was looking at Ozymandias' self-portrait thing, and I noticed that he doesn't have any ears or anything. Dragons like Llewellyn has cheek fins and they may help with hearing, but what about dragons like Isolde, with no cheek fins? Let the commencing commence.

[Gizensha]

Maybe she has ears behind her hair?<br><br>Or maybe ears on a less conventional part of her body, kinda like with crickets?<br><br>On a more serious note, dragons lacking in ears does not appear to be uncommon. Out of my ornamental/plush dragons, only two have ears. (amount checked, six). One of which is an eastern (purdy solid wood, large thing, only cost 90 zlotty, but that's irrelevent to this discussion ^^), the other hardly counts, since it's a Nall plush, and Nall's a kittydragon rather than a normal dragon.<br><br>So, prehaps dragons have a completely different method of hearing than that of humans? Maybe any vibrations touching there scales is 'heard'. For that matter, how do snakes hear? (Can't actually remember this one, but isn't it that instead of external ears they have tiny holes in the side of there head for hearing?) Could be a similar method to that.

[Muninn]

Like birds also, they lack external ears. Maybe it's just how they're drawn, it could have an artistic cause.

[Gizensha]

Just did a quick google image search, and external ears on lizards seem to be rare at best. Interesting.

[Zylo]

Seems like dragons employ different sensory methods. My guess would be sensing vibrations.<br><br>My other guess is that we have too much time on our hands and are thinking way too hard about this.

[Dr. Dos]

I'd say the latter.

[Ozymandias]

Well, you know, I thought about that when I drew it, but ended up not adding them in because:<br><ol type='a'><li> I can't draw wings, and they're kinda like that</li><li> I didn't wanna mess up the pic</li><li> It didn't look bad them not being there.</li></ol><br>On the whole lizard ear thing I think its down to interpretation. I mean on one hand, most lizards don't have them, but on the other, Dragons are fantastical creatures anyway, so...uh...I'll shut up now.<br><br><span style='color:#64008D'>MOD Edit: If you want lettered lists, try the BB code. It helps avoid unwanted emoticons.</span>

[norsenerd]

I think that it's probably small hol wihtout all the nasty flesh pretruding fom the sides of the heads.