According to a recent study, little fish may produce sounds louder than elephants.
According to a recent study, little fish may produce sounds louder than elephants. By CNN's Jack Guy Wednesday, February 28, 2024 Source edition .cnn.com A recent study found that a tiny kind of fish, little bigger than half an inch in length, can make noises louder than those of an elephant. According to a news release released on Tuesday by an international team of scientists, Danionella cerebrum, a tiny translucent fish that inhabits shallow waters off the coast of Myanmar, is capable of producing sounds up to 140 dB. According to the news release, research author Ralf Britz, an ichthyologist at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Dresden, Germany, remarked, "This is quite unusual for an animal of such diminutive size and comparable to the noise a human perceives of an aeroplane during take-off at a distance of 100 metres." Elephants can produce sounds up to 125 decibels with their