Even a moth can hear up to 300 KHZ while you can hear only up to about 12 KHZ. Even a rat can hear 7 times better than you, so potentially a rat has a better chance of hearing GOD than you. Or maybe GOD wishes you to “hear” him in other ways?
Did you know?
- Dolphins do not have ears. Instead, they rely on eardrums located outside their bodies. They also use sonar, or echolocation, to enhance their already superior hearing abilities.
- Bats also utilize echolocation to determine location and size of things in the dark. In fact, they can find small insects 9m away in pitch darkness.
- Cats are able of hearing higher frequencies than both humans and dogs. Their ear muscles also allow them to rotate their ears up to 180°.
- Dogs can hear frequencies way above humans. That’s why they know you’re home long before anyone else.
- Pigeons can hear sounds as low as 0.5Hz and can detect distant storms, earthquakes and even volcanoes. Pigeons are also the best navigators in the world.
- Monkeys’ hearing is slightly less acute than that of humans at frequencies below 8,000Hz, but extends up to 45,000Hz, which is an octave above the upper human limit.
Our early ancestors were especially good at hearing frequencies between 1,500 and 3,500Hz, which would include the sounds of rustling leaves – and nowadays vacuum cleaners, telephones and hard consonants.
Instead of regressing as one might expect, modern humans’ hearing ability has become even more acute in the slightly higher frequencies. In fact, as mentioned above, modern humans are proficient at hearing sounds from 2,000 to 5,000Hz, and actually fare better than other primates in that range.
Being able to excel at higher frequencies is good for “complex short-range vocal communication”. This explains why we are better at having an intimate conversation across a dinner table than grunting and howling at each other out in nature. Chimps for instance have trouble hearing some sounds we use in spoken language.
