Animal & Insects

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear and each ear can turn independently.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue

• Dogs can hear much higher frequencies than humans, that is why they respond to “silent” dog whistles
• The ears of a dog are controlled by 18 muscles. This allows the ears to tilt and rotate

Parrots have a remarkable sense of hearing. In WW1 parrots were kept on the Eiffel Tower in Paris because they heard enemy planes approaching long before anyone else

Snakes do not have ears, but their tongues are sensitive to sound vibrations

Fish do not have ears but they can hear. They “hear” pressure changes through the ridges on their bodies

Male mosquitoes hear with thousands of tiny hairs that grow on their antennae

The hearing organs of crickets are located in their knees

The hearing organs of cicadas are located in their stomachs