Despite being the ‘boss’ of the house, humans typically have a hearing range under half of that of most household pets.

This shows exactly why your dog can hear the postman approaching from down the road, and why it is so good at alerting you to any intruders.

How do you think cats can hear birds and mice so easily and proceed to bring them into your house as a present?

Even if a mouse and a turtle found a language they could both speak, they wouldn’t be able to hear each other! Mice have great hearing, but can’t hear the lower sounds that most animals can hear.

Bats find their way around using their hearing senses because of their poor eyesight. By using ‘echolocation’ they can work out when walls and other objects are in their way.

Most sound reception in a beluga whale happens in the fat-filled lower jawbone, which conducts sound waves through the jaw to bones in the middle ears.

Dolphins are incredibly intelligent animals that use their lower jawbone to assist with hearing, as well as using their antenna-li ke teeth for echolocation.

Related to dolphins and whales, the porpoise has the one of the largest hearing ranges on the planet.