Sensoryecologyisa newlyemergingintegrationof two well-establisheddisciplinesthat had not beenexamined jointly until Dusenbery'srecentbook (1992).Although biologistshavealwaysrecognizedthe important interre lationshipsbetweensensoryphysiologyandecology,this work wasthe first to explicitly examinethe two together. The brief discussionof sensoryecologywith which we introduce the next two papersis taken entirely from the first three chapters of Dusenbery's book. We hope we've