Re: What is Hearing Ranges of Animals

Date: Wed Jan 20 06:29:55 1999
Posted By: John Buckwalter, Professor, Physical and Life Sciences, SUNY College of Technology, Alfred, NY
Area of science: General Biology
ID: 913472196.Gb

Message:


The exact frequency ranges given for various animals vary somewhat from 
study to study. My best source gives the following:

  cats:  45 hz to 60,000 hz
  dogs:  50 hz to 45,000 hz
  bats:     ?  to 120,000 hz

and the record holder for the high end:

  dolphins: to 200,000 hz

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