How Bizarre Animals

Pandas have ultrasonic hearing

Their hearing exceeds ranges observed in polar bears

Giant panda

ULTRASONIC  Giant pandas, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, are a vocal species, but scientists don’t yet know why pandas have such good hearing.

San Diego Zoo

By Amy McDermott

- More than 2 years ago

Giant pandas have better ears than people — and polar bears. Pandas can hear surprisingly high frequencies, conservation biologist Megan Owen of the San Diego Zoo and colleagues report in the April Global Ecology and Conservation.