Answer 1:
The most successful search so far on
www.google.com was: whale hearing
frequency. This website has some good info:
here
This site says that reporting the frequency
range for hearing in dogs and other species is not
a straightforward task - the "how" of determining
hearing frequency ranges must first be explained.
Testing in animals differs from the method
commonly used with humans of voluntarily reporting
if a sound is heard. When determining the
frequency range in animals, an investigator
usually must first train the animal to respond to
a presented sound stimulus by selecting between
two actions using rewards. Often this response is
to try to drink or eat from one of two dispensers
when a sound is heard. The sounds are randomly
presented from one side or the other, and the
subject must select the right dispenser (on the
same side as the stimulus) to get the reward;
otherwise no food or drink is dispensed.
There's a graph of the results with 5 dogs -
decibels vs frequency. It gives frequency ranges
of 64-23,000 Hz for humans, 67-45,000 Hz for dogs,
1,000-123,000 Hz for beluga whale - a huge range!,
but starting at a high lower frequency, compared
with humans and dogs. (There were also a number of
reports about whales hearing low frequencies with
a google search on 'whale hearing.' You can look
for those.) The table in the website also has
data for a dozen or more other animals.
The graph for dogs shows them hearing sound in
the range of 0 to -20 dB at their best frequency
range, and needing sounds as loud as 50-70 dB to
hear them at the high and low ends of their
frequency ranges. Click Here to return to the search form.
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