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Re:The ear does not do a Fourier transform by bragr on Thursday October 30, 2025 @04:05PM (#45764677)
Well without the humorous size difference, this is basically what whales and elephants do for long distance communication.
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Re:The ear does not do a Fourier transform by Terr_ on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:33PM (#45765641)
Was playing around with a fundamental frequency calculator [0] to associate certain sizes to hertz, then using a tone-generator [1] to get a subjective idea of what it'd sound like.

Though of course, nature has plenty of other tricks, like how Koalas can go down to ~27hz. [2]

[0] https://acousticalengineer.com/fundamental-frequency-calcula...

[1] https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.14275

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Re:The ear does not do a Fourier transform by fuzzfactor on Thursday October 30, 2025 @07:12PM (#45766503)
How long would a Dachshund have to be for it to sound like a 60 kilo Great Dane?
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