How The World SOUNDS To Animals

Animals live in an entirely different reality FYI

Some citations and further related reading:

Timespampts
0:00 - Intro
1:13 - Time Perception
2:00 - Critical Flicker Fusion Frequency
4:58 - DOG REALITY
7:07 - CATS
7:50 - RODENTS
8:46 - MY DUCKS
9:45 - Other BIRDS
10:54 - INSECTS
11:19 - 4 Dimensional Fly Trap
12:04 - Pros and Cons of bullet time
13:14 - Reptiles Hack Time
14:39 - My Algae Room

[garrenbrooks]

This is crazy. To think I've lived 32 years without ever realizing that dogs constantly hear a piano playing in their heads.

[Raelven]

I had a Dachshund who went blind. He could find his way from across the street, through the yard, right to the back yard gate. He'd take a few steps, tilt his head, reorient himself, take more steps, repeating the process. One day the two water fountains in the front and side yards were not running. Instead of finding his way, he walked in circles, completely lost and confused. I realized then, *he used the sound of the fountains to triangulate his path to the gate.*
My mind is still blown by watching this little dog do more complicated math, in his head, than I can without a calculator.

[TheBitGuy]

I'm not convinced that the frequency of sound would be different to dogs or other animals. Unlike computers, we actually have different parts of our cochleas that are sensitive to different frequencies. So I think the pitch of our voices would remain the same for dogs, but it would just seem that we're talking more slowly.

[juanofthemost]

Dog's POV gives them a nostalgic feeling. No wonder they always seem to enjoy everything they do

[DemonKing]

I won't lie, the slowed down bird calls really makes me wonder how advanced their languages actually are. What sounds like to us almost identical sounds all had a slightly different pitch like they were their own words. Wonder what we'll find out about orca in the coming years.

[Deathvalleyherper]

I had once hypothesized that this is the reason it's so hard to smack a fly when it lands on you, it's living so fast you're moving in slow motion. I sort of tested it when I discovered that if you move slow enough they can't see it until you get in strike range. So slow it appears to them that you aren't moving at all. I wrote this comment before he talked about flys.

[siegfriedo]

Humans can change time perception too.
For instance under extremely stressful and/or life threatening conditions.
I have experienced this personally. I have been in a car accident years ago, skidded on a side of the curved road and crashed into a tree with the drivers side door (I was driving).
I can remember to this day how my time perception had extremely slowed down to the point where I could see the tree approaching, then slowly making contact with the car door, the door slowly bending around the three, the glass shattering into hundreds of tiny pieces and flying towards me, all that as if I was watching video footage that was slowed down tens of times and at the same time the resolution and detail was extremely enhanced. The crash took a second or two but it felt like time almost stopped at that particular moment. Will never forget it.

[ryanlockhart]

Slowed down bird calls are so beautiful! I find that when I'm around birds and sing or play an instrument, a lot of the time the birds seem to be listening. They must be hearing something so much prettier than me or anyone else!

[communismenjoyer-mxyo]

A note about flies: they also sense changes in air pressure extremely well which is why a lattice-like object that allows air to flow through it, such as a swatter, can reliably hit flies when swung fast but a solid, flat object like an open palm is telegraphed from a fly-mile away. coincidentally an object moving slower creates less of a disturbance in air pressure.

[The..Dark..Knight]

This totally makes sense of why dogs react when we speak to them in that high pitched sing-songy voice we all do. To them it sounds like a normal excited voice with our usual voice dipping so low in octave. Also why hearing very high pitch is easier for them as it's brought to a significantly lower frequency in their ears. Very intriguing.

[uncommonsense]

You mean to tell me, my cat is making these insane ninja moves in a faster timeline than I see them? That just made me respect cats even more!

[adhdelightful]

"The temporal resolution of your reality is essentially limited to 60 frames per second."
This came with that soul-sucking realization, yet again, that what we perceive and the actual physical world we live in are two different things. 😅

[StevenIngram]

Wow. I always thought that, just due to size difference and movement speeds, that dogs would perceive us as slow lumbering giants. But I had no idea how true that was. :D

[Ara_Arasaka]

Crazy to think they’re still our best friends when we are so slow to them lol.

09:01 duck tummy rubbing ... OMG so cute :D that shot is a hidden gem

[bodvarson]

This just means that our dog friends get to enjoy more time with us in their own eyes.

[localcompanion]

The bird songs are what I believe is the closest we will ever get to potentially hearing dinosaur calls. The slowed and deepened frequency, along with the fact these animals evolved from dinosaurs, really makes me think a bunch of slowed bird calls would be like taking a step back over a hundred million years ago!

[jaimelovemac]

9:00 him giving his duck little scratches while it laid on it's back and kicked it's little webbed feet was the cutest thing I've seen all week! Adorable!!! 🦆🦆🦆💛💛💛

[parkervarin]

Science, psychology, music, nature, telling others about the majesty of it all and doing it well. This is such an exceptionally well made video. I could watch this extended to 90 minutes. It's so good. You've got all these animals and land and sound equipment and a Youtube channel and scientific papers and just from this video it seems like you might be living my dream life. Keep up the awesome work.

[scotttruehart]

What I found interesting is that the bird sounds sounded like what movies use for dinosaur sounds.