Animal Ears Animal Ears
Hear the world through their ears.
Upload a sound and hear it back the way an animal would.
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Nothing invented here: this comes from real studies
Every animal here has a real measurement behind it: scientists who checked, pitch by pitch, the volume at which it starts to hear. We use those curves to transform your sound, and we cite the source on every page. It's an honest approximation, not an exact copy of what the animal feels.
Choose an animal
45 animals, one tool
Human
Your starting point: from the rumble of thunder to the finest squeal you can catch.
Dog
It hears squeals so high they're silence to you: that's why ‘silent' whistles work.
Cat
It reaches nearly four times higher than you: it hears mice talking on a private channel.
Cattle
It hears into ultrasound, yet it's hopeless at working out where a noise came from.
Horse
Ears that swivel 180° independently: it listens behind its back without moving.
Rabbit
Its ears are giant funnels: they gather danger long before it comes into view.
Mouse
It lives one floor above you: nearly deaf to your voice, razor-sharp in ultrasound.
Deer
Steerable ears that sweep the forest for the twig that snaps.
Ferret
It hunts in pitch-dark tunnels, guided by its prey's high-pitched squeaks.
Raccoon
Its broad in-air range reaches 40,000 Hz, while its most sensitive measured point sits near 1,000 Hz.
Eagle
Champion eyesight, ordinary ears: it catches fewer highs than you do.
Honeybee
It can't hear at a distance: it feels the air vibrating with its antennae, centimetres away.
Shark
Only lows interest it: a wounded fish thrashing hundreds of metres away.
Dolphin
It reaches seven times higher than you and uses its clicks' echo to ‘see' underwater.
Elephant
It talks in rumbles so deep they travel for miles and you barely feel them.
Octopus
No ears at all: it feels the slow push of water with its balance organs.
Snake
No eardrum, no ears: it listens to your footsteps by resting its jaw on the ground.
Fly
It can't hear at a distance: its antennae feel the air a wing moves nearby.
Mantis shrimp
It roars on the seabed in deep rumbles; how it hears them is still a mystery.
Gecko
The best ears among lizards, tuned precisely to its own shout.
Pigeon
Its superpower sits below your hearing: it catches the rumble of distant storms.
Pig
Its ceiling is double yours: sows and piglets talk above your limit.
Goat
It hears ultrasound, yet it's sharpest exactly where a kid's bleat sits.
Sheep
A wide range into ultrasound and a fine ear for telling who is bleating.
Squirrel
It raises the alarm in ultrasound: a tip-off the predator never hears.
Reindeer
Wide, even hearing for a landscape that's enormous, empty and silent.
Bat
It hunts in the dark by reading the echo of its own shouts, five times above your ceiling.
Seal
Two sets of ears in one: one tuned to air, the other to water.
Tiger
A house cat's ears scaled up, plus a roar you feel before you hear it.
Owl
It catches a mouse in total darkness on hearing alone, and doesn't miss.
Chicken
It misses your highs, but it drops to rumbles you never even brush.
Hummingbird
It sings notes higher than it can actually hear.
Duck
Sensible bird hearing: no extremes, all of it in quacking territory.
Penguin
It finds its partner by voice among thousands of penguins all shouting at once.
Chameleon
No eardrum: faint hearing, limited to low pitches.
Sea turtle
It hears underwater and only lows: the highs go straight past it.
Frog
Hearing split in two, tuned to the two notes of its own call.
Crocodile
A mother who digs out the nest the moment she hears her young peeping.
Goldfish
Top of the class among fish: it comes with a built-in amplifier.
Clownfish
Its larvae listen for a reef crackling to find their way home.
Dragonfish
A listener from the abyss: we know so little that this is an honest hypothesis.
Butterfly
It hears through an ear at the base of the wing, tuned to birdsong.
Dragonfly
No ears at all: it reads the wind with fine hairs and antennae as it flies.
Jumping spider
No ears, yet it hears a wasp across the room... with its legs.
Moth
Ears with a single mission: spot the bat before it's too late.