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How Well Can Sharks Hear? This Recent Experiment Offers a Surprising Answer.

Blacktip sharks reacted to underwater sounds up to 243 feet away, including in a zone where researchers expected limited hearing.

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It’s never really been a question of whether sharks can hear well. They can. But measuring how well is difficult.

If hearing is somewhat subjective for us humans, imagine how hard it would be to objectively judge a shark’s hearing. But we recently learned more about a particular breed’s sharp hearing: according to a study published in Integrative Organismal Biology, blacktip sharks off the Florida coast have surprisingly sensitive hearing and can instantly pinpoint where a noise is........

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