Auditory mate or prey localisation is central to the lifestyle of many animals and requires precise directional hearing.
It only works where the issue at stake is narrow, precise and requires hearing relatively few witnesses.
Perhaps a larger sample of dogs, or a better means of quantifying coat colour would reveal a more precise relationship between hearing loss and pigmentation.
Ian Dickinson's sound design is so precise that you hear the click of Nanny's knitting needles.
Parisa remembers the precise moment she heard her first song by Shahin Najafi, an Iranian rapper living in exile in Germany, on her illegal satellite television in the small city of Karadj, west of Tehran.
The performance had a masterly architectural shape; it was phenomenally precise (you could hear every note of the upward-rushing violins in the Prelude); it allowed the singers to be heard without strain; it did not stint on Wagnerian majesty and mystery.
As I was gripped by the swirling mass of hydraulic energy, spun round 360 degrees and shot through the narrow gap between the islands, it was this precise phrase I heard repeatedly screamed into my ears: "Just keep paddling!" Staying dry through that stretch was the proudest moment of my trip.
Note the measurement on your gauge at the precise moment you hear your heartbeat again.
And, as I mentioned, given that the Aramaic has been preserved is most likely that we are hearing the precise word that Jesus used with his disciples.
It's astonishing (and beautiful for the believer) to think that we may be hearing the precise words and sounds that came from the lips of Jesus of Nazareth.
"We will wait to hear a precise and clear proposal, then we will comment," he said.
