Sounds Only Cats Can Hear. To put into perspective, humans can only hear from 20 to 20,000 hertz. While they don’t use ultrasounds as a form of communication, some rodents do, so that’s the reason why cats have evolved to hear those sounds.
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Cats can hear sounds as high as 64,000 hertz. Cats, in fact, do enjoy music, but they don’t enjoy human music — at least according to new research. They can hear higher pitched sounds, ranging up to 79 khz, which is much higher than the 20 khz of a human.
From up to three feet away, he can determine a noise's location with accuracy within inches in only 6/100 of a second.
They can hear higher pitched sounds, ranging up to 79 khz, which is much higher than the 20 khz of a human. A 1978 study in developmental psychobiology reported that these vocalizations are specific to different circumstances. The average healthy human can hear noises up to 20,000hz, whereas cats can hear up to 64,000hz. There is a whole world of sounds that our cats can tune into that we (and our doggie friends) can’t even imagine.
