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Assuming it's in a comfortable decible range, of course.
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http://www.silcom.com/~aludwig/EARS.htm

Human hearing is a superior defensive system in every respect except source location accuracy. Note: Jourdain (page 23) states that human accuracy is 1-2 degrees in azimuth.
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Other sources appear to give it as around 5 degrees
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Sorry to break this to you, but human hearing is (mostly) nondirectional.

Go into a patch of woods in the summer. See if you can find where the closest cicada is by hearing alone.


Funny, I used to do this all the time with grasshoppers.

Caught a hell of a lot of them that way. Frogs too.

All you have to do is listen...
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You need to actually look at literature.

I can't believe you're actually asserting that you can't locate something based on sound if you have two working ears.

Maybe your brain is not as capable as the rest of ours.
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Sorry to break this to you, but human hearing is (mostly) nondirectional.

Go into a patch of woods in the summer. See if you can find where the closest cicada is by hearing alone.
well then I must be the luckiest man in the world because I seem to be able to track people in counterstrike based upon their footsteps

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It's a bad sign when you use the word "think" of your computer.
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Sorry to break this to you, but human hearing is (mostly) nondirectional.

Go into a patch of woods in the summer. See if you can find where the closest cicada is by hearing alone.


That's because the trees echo the sound, so it seems to come from all directions....
 
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