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Can marine animals hear the direction of sounds?
I've read online that humans cannot perceive which direction sounds originated from while underwater because the interval between when the sound strikes one eardrum and the contralateral is so narrow that our brains can't discern which one happened first; but is this true for all marine animals? It seems to me like that would be a fairly useful adaptation for fish and cetaceans, but can't exactly poll them to find out.
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