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Animals live in an entirely different reality FYI

This video compares the perception of sound and reality ‘refresh rates’ between animals like dogs, cats, Guinea pigs, ducks, small birds, elephants, insects, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What do humans sound like? I’m completely deaf and am curious how an animal can perceive sound of others differently.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The only way I can think to describe is kind of like, you know when you’re driving over rumble strips in your car, and you can feel the vibration in your body? A human hearing sound would be like the vibrations at, say, a moderate speed, and a dog would hear/feel them at a slower speed. A hummingbird would feel them at so slow a speed, they could almost feel each bump separately.

I’m not sure how to explain the accompanying pitch, except that it’s like a shift in colour – when the sound slows down, it also lowers in pitch, so an analogy could be that if a human would hear a medium pitch (which we could call blue), a dog would hear a lower/deeper pitch (which in this analogy would be a deeper/darker blue).

Does that help, or am I making it more confusing?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Yeah I like the wavelength analogy — thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

so you know how you have flavor types. Sweet, sour, meat, veggie... etc?

you know how some flavors can be extremely uncomfortable? or how things like hit another sense like blue cheese or horseradish?

I think sounds are similar to taste in an abstract way. You know onion when you smell and taste it. the word and sound have a similar memory that carries the same information but to the ears when you know the language aka flavor