{"id":1748,"date":"2012-09-17T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entmidwest.fm1.dev\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2022-12-15T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:57:39","slug":"ten-fun-hearing-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/ten-fun-hearing-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Fun Hearing Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>10 FUN FACTS ABOUT HEARING:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fish do not have ears, but they can hear pressure changes through ridges on their body.<br>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The ear\u2019s malleus, incus and stapes (otherwise known as the hammer, anvil and stirrup) are the smallestbones in the human body. All three together could fit together on a penny.<br>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The ear continues to hear sounds, even while you sleep.<br>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sound travels at the speed of 1,130 feet per second, or 770 miles per hour.<br>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dogs can hear much higher frequencies than humans.<br>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ears not only help you hear, but also aid in balance.<br>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Snakes hear through the jaw bone and through a traditional inner ear. In essence, snakes have two distinct hearing mechanisms, which helps them hear and catch prey.<br>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sitting in front of the speakers at a rock concert can expose you to 120 decibels, which will begin to damagehearing in only 7 1\/2 minutes.<br>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thirty-seven percent of children with only minimal hearing loss fail at least one grade.<br>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Male mosquitoes hear with thousands of tiny hairs growing on their antennae.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>*Reported by the American Academy of Audiology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 FUN FACTS ABOUT HEARING: *Reported by the American Academy of Audiology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hearing-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}