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Utah Soundscapes: Ultrasonics

Northern Grasshopper Mouse photo courtesy of enature.com
Roger W. Barbour
Northern Grasshopper Mouse photo courtesy of enature.com

By Jeff Rice

Salt Lake City, UT – Human hearing ranges from about 20 hertz to 20,000 hertz. But many animals-- from bats to moths to mice-- communicate and hear at pitches well above this. Jeff Rice has this audio postcard for the Utah Soundscapes series about the hidden world of ultrasonics.

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