A traveling exhibition from the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas, Animal SuperSenses compares human senses with that of a variety of animals. Animal SuperSenses invites visitors to examine what life would be like with enhanced or dulled senses, like those of other animals. Guided by a caped super-shark, the exhibit looks at ultrasonic and subsonic sound, bone conduction hearing, ultraviolet vision, infrared senses, and electrical senses.
Children can listen like a snake and see like a bee, among other hands-on activities.
Visitors to Animal SuperSenses will discover that what they sense is only a portion of what the world has to offer. Interactive displays and videos will show how animals have survived using the individual and unique senses best suited for their environment. By using a heat sensitive panel, visitors can leave a heat-signature that a pit viper can sense. By playing the audio of elephant vocalizations, visitors can feel the sound and discover how these mammals communicate. And finally, by peering into different light elements, exhibit-goers will obtain a greater understanding of the night vision of owls.