Which animal can hear the most quiet sounds?

You've probably heard the expression “elephant ears.” It describes someone with an extraordinary ability to hear sounds that would be inaudible to virtually everyone else. Well, the phrase is extremely accurate! Elephants have some of the best hearing around. They can hear at frequencies 20 times lower than humans.

1. What animal can hear the quietest sound?
2. What animal can barely hear?
3. What is the quietest animal in the world?
4. What animal can hear the lowest frequency?
5. What sounds can cats hear?
6. How does an elephant hear?
7. Which animals has three hearts?
8. Is there an animal without ears?
9. What is the quietest thing in the world?
10. What is a very shy animal?
11. What animal has no stomach?
12. What can dogs hear?
13. What frequency can cats hear?
14. Why do cats hate water?
15. What sound scares cats?
16. Why do cats hate whistling?

What animal can hear the quietest sound?

Pigeons can hear infrasound, sounds that are much lower than a human can hear. With the average pigeon being able to hear sounds as low as 0.5 Hz, they can detect distant storms, earthquakes and even volcanoes.

What animal can barely hear?

Naked mole rats are nearly deaf because their ears can't amplify sound. Naked mole rats have poor hearing because, unlike other mammals, they have abnormal outer hair cells that can't amplify sound. The animals could be used to model human deafness and help develop treatments.

What is the quietest animal in the world?

A fish is the quietest animal in the world. Other quiet animals are: owls, sloths, octopuses, beavers or house cats.

What animal can hear the lowest frequency?

Bats. Bats have evolved very sensitive hearing to cope with their nocturnal activity. Their hearing range varies by species; at the lowest it can be 1 kHz for some species and for other species the highest reaches up to 200 kHz.

What sounds can cats hear?

A cat, however, is most sensitive to sounds of around 8,000 Hertz (8 kHz.) They can also hear up to 64 kHz, which is 1.6 octaves above the upper range of human hearing (which is about 20 kHz).

How does an elephant hear?

Hearing. Elephants have good hearing, detecting sounds as low as 14 to 16 hz (human low range: 20 hz) and as high as 12,000 hz (human high range: 20,000). Elephants frequently use infrasonic sounds, which are sounds emitted below the human hearing range, in long-distance communication.

Which animals has three hearts?

Octopuses and squids (animals called cephalopods) have three hearts. Two hearts pump blood to the gills to take up oxygen, and the other pumps blood around the body (Figure 1).

Is there an animal without ears?

Many sea animals like mollusks, fishes, sponges, and flatworms don't have ears. Reptiles and amphibians such as snakes, newts, and salamanders lack ears. There are also worms and insects such as moths that don't have ears but hear in other ways.

What is the quietest thing in the world?

In the anechoic chamber, speech sounds very muffled, like when your ears need to pop in an airplane. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis is the quietest place in the world, with a background noise reading of –9.4 decibels.

What is a very shy animal?

The shy five animals of Africa are Aardvark, Aardwolf, Bat-eared Fox, Meerkat, and Porcupine. ... This group of shy animals is so named as sightings of them by many people are few and far between.

What animal has no stomach?

There's no sac in the middle that secrete powerful acids and digestive enzymes. In other words, the platypus has no stomach. The stomach, defined as an acid-producing part of the gut, first evolved around 450 million years ago, and it's unique to back-boned animals (vertebrates).

What can dogs hear?

Dogs, on the other hand, can hear sounds as high as 47,000 to 65,000 Hz. These are sounds far too high-pitched for us. In addition, at high frequencies dogs can detect much softer sounds than we can.

What frequency can cats hear?

The hearing range of the cat for sounds of 70 dB SPL extends from 48 Hz to 85 kHz, giving it one of the broadest hearing ranges among mammals. Analysis suggests that cats evolved extended high-frequency hearing without sacrifice of low-frequency hearing.

Why do cats hate water?

Cats are fastidious animals that spend a great deal of their day grooming themselves. ... Wet fur is extremely uncomfortable for a cat and often takes a long time to dry. Wet fur is also heavier than dry and thus makes a cat less nimble and easier for predators to catch.

What sound scares cats?

What noises are cats scared of? A cat can become fearful of any sound that it forms a negative association with. Along with fireworks, cats can also become frightened of loud bangs, thunder and household noises such as lawnmowers.

Why do cats hate whistling?

Many cats react to whistle-blowing, for good reason: cats have superior hearing skills, and high-pitched sounds often remind them of their high-pitched prey--birds, rodents and other small animals.