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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 4701042" data-attributes="member: 57383">Well it's a matter of degree. If I remember correctly most birds have hearing roughly as good as humans, while a lot of mammals have better hearing than humans. Also, avians generally can't hear as high pitches as mammals (which is one factor in why the few birds with echo-location aren't anything like as good at it as bats are).The only SRD creatures with Listen racial bonuses of +4 or higher are animals noted for their extraordinary hearing, such as bats or owls, who rely on their hearing for hunting. A Tyrannosaurus probably hunted by smell and sight, not hearing, so I don't see why its Listen bonus needs to be increased from the SRD, although I do support increasing its Spot racial bonus.Speaking of the SRD's racial bonuses to Listen, if we ever are ever bored enough to 'Bettering' the more minor SRD creatures I'd boost the Bat's Listen racial bonus up to +8 or +10, to match an Owl or Destrachan, and give a +4 or so to the Cat, Lion and Leopard ,who currently don't get any racial boost to hearing, which is a pretty gratuitous error in my opinion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 4701042, member: 57383"] Well it's a matter of degree. If I remember correctly most birds have hearing roughly as good as humans, while a lot of mammals have better hearing than humans. Also, avians generally can't hear as high pitches as mammals (which is one factor in why the few birds with echo-location aren't anything like as good at it as bats are). The only SRD creatures with Listen racial bonuses of +4 or higher are animals noted for their extraordinary hearing, such as bats or owls, who rely on their hearing for hunting. A [I]Tyrannosaurus [/I]probably hunted by smell and sight, not hearing, so I don't see why its Listen bonus needs to be increased from the SRD, although I do support increasing its Spot racial bonus. Speaking of the SRD's racial bonuses to Listen, if we ever are ever bored enough to 'Bettering' the more minor SRD creatures I'd boost the Bat's Listen racial bonus up to +8 or +10, to match an Owl or Destrachan, and give a +4 or so to the Cat, Lion and Leopard ,who currently don't get any racial boost to hearing, which is a pretty gratuitous error in my opinion. [/QUOTE]

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