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Old 03-22-2009, 09:26 PM   #61
Hemi-Cuda
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Originally Posted by jammies View Post
Yah my cat was getting annoyed at the speaker and kept meowing at me as I went up the scale. Cats actually can hear even better than dogs, up to almost 80 000 hz, dogs get to around 44 000 and humans usually top out at 17 000.

Bats can hear up to 110 000 in order to use their sonar effectively, although there are some blind humans who use the low frequencies we can hear as a crude form of echolocation as well. I tried to learn how as a kid (ok, so I was a strange kid) but never got the hang of it.
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