Newborn harbour porpoises have the fastest hearing development among mammals

Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 13:01 in Biology & Nature

All mammals can hear -- but it is not an ability that is fully developed at birth. Some mammals like humans take years to fully develop their hearing abilities, but for a newborn harbor porpoise it takes less than 30 hours. This is the fastest in any studied mammal.

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