the elephant has poor hearing ?
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13Elephants are one of the few animals that can perceive infrasound, which means they can hear distant growls and even the movement of clouds.
Despite its gigantic ears, the elephant has poor hearing.
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Noooo according to my understanding, it dose here,if it doesn't how could it have survive to earth and to differences.
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The elephant is one of the best animals in hearing. An elephant can hear a sound which is as far as 16 miles away from where it is.
This proves that it's hearing system is not poor.
added by HASSAN LOKWII ANOCHE 1288 days ago
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which means they can hear distant growls and even the movement of clouds.
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Despite its gigantic ears, the elephant has poor hearing.
added by Anonymous 660 days ago
Elephants can communicate using very low frequency sounds, with pitches below the range of human hearing. These low-frequency sounds, termed infrasounds, can travel several kilometers, and provide elephants with a private communication channel that plays an important role in elephants' complex social life. Their frequencies are as low as the lowest notes of a pipe organ.
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Although the sounds themselves have been studied for many years, it has remained unclear exactly how elephant infrasounds are made. One possibility, favored by some scientists, is that the elephants tense and relax the muscles in their larynx or voice box for each pulse of sound. This mechanism, similar to cats purring, can produce sounds as low in pitch as desired, but the sounds produced are generally not very powerful.
The other possibility is that elephant infrasounds are produced like human speech or singing, but because the elephant larynx is so large, they are extremely low in frequency.
added by Anonymous 767 days ago
I agree because an elephanth is likely to be the biggest animals and itd nature arround it ears its defferent because it covers the space of hearing and this could be hindering its hearing.
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added by Anonymous 1163 days ago
Elephants have good hearing, detecting sounds as low as 14 to 16 hz (human low range: 20 hz) and as high as 12,000 hz (human high range: 20,000).
Elephants frequently use infrasonic sounds, which are sounds emitted below the human hearing range, in long-distance communication. Research has shown that elephants are capable of recognizing calls and voices of particular individuals from 1 to 1.5 km (0.6-0.9 mi.) away. Refer to Communication Section.
The ears of the elephant are used to funnel in sound waves from the environment, contributing to its keen sense of hearing.
In general, animals with large heads and wide-set ears are better adapted for hearing lower frequency sounds because the larger skull encompasses longer ear canals, wider tympanic membranes (membrane that separates the middle ear from the exterior), and larger middle
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