Question

What is the hearing range of a rhinoceros?

Answer 1

Answer:

Rhinos, she explained, can hear down to a frequency of four hertz, whereas even a human baby, with entirely undamaged ears, can normally only pick up sounds as low as 20 hertz. Giraffes and elephants can also hear in this infrasound range.

Answer 2

The study of such sound waves is referred to as infrasonic, and it covers frequencies below 20 Hz down to 0.1 Hz, and in rare cases, 0.001 Hz.

Explanation:

• Rhinos have exceptional hearing, picking up infrasound well beyond the range of human hearing.

• Rhinos can hear at a frequency of four hertz, although even a healthy human baby's hearing can only take up sounds at a frequency of 20 hertz. Elephants and giraffes can both hear in this infrasound spectrum.

• Wind blowing through the savannah grass, birds tweeting, and distant animals moving across the plains provide the soundtrack of a wild rhinoceros' life. A rhinoceros in a zoo, on the other hand, hears children shouting, automobiles passing, and the constant hum of city life.