• Question: Which Animal Has The Most Extreme Sense of Hearing? Lucy Anderson

    Asked by lu lu :) to Greg, Jen, Laura, Mobeen, Paul on 6 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Laura Haworth

      Laura Haworth answered on 6 Mar 2016:

      Not sure perhaps bats?

    • Photo: Paul O'Mahoney

      Paul O'Mahoney answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      I think owls have a pretty good sense of hearing. They hunt prey in the night a lot so mustn’t be able to rely on sight too much

    • Photo: Greg Melia

      Greg Melia answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      I’m afraid I’m not a zoologist so I don’t really know this one. You can have hearing at different wavelengths though: bats hear very high sounds but whales make very low sounds that travel a long way round the world. A bat couldn’t hear a whale and a whale couldn’t hear a bat, but both are very good at what they do.

    • Photo: Mobeen Ali

      Mobeen Ali answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      I had to look this up as there are many different types of animals with extremely good hearing. Apparently it is the greater wax moth. They can hear up to 300KHz whereas we can only hear up to about 20KHz. This is even higher than what bats can hear, which is what the greater wax moth has evolved to avoid being eaten by.

    • Photo: Jen Lowe

      Jen Lowe answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      Bats are pretty neat with their echolocation skills.

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