What animal has the best hearing?

It's capable of hearing sounds frequencies of up to 300kHz, blowing away our piddly human abilities (at our best, humans can only hear up to about 20kHz). The researchers suspect that the moth's extraordinary sense of hearing is largely used to outwit its main predator: the common bat. read more

This little guy has the hearing crown, with a hearing frequency of up to 300 kiloherz, it can hear 150 times more than us and can even hear 100 herz above a bat (but as the bat is its number one predator it's going to need to outwit it somehow). read more

Researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland have discovered that the greater wax moth (Galleria mellonella), a dull-colored, generally boring and common moth, has the most extreme hearing sense of any known animal. read more

The average hearing range for a human is between 20 Hz to 20 kHz and uses three muscles to aid the hearing process. There are, however, animals who have better hearing than that of humans. Moth. Recently, moths have been named as having the best hearing in the world, in both the animal and human kingdoms. read more