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Humans can develop a sixth sense, study proves

AS ANIMALS GO, HUMANS HAVE RELAtively limited senses. We can’t smell as well as dogs, see as many colours as mantis shrimp, or find our way home using the Earth’s magnetic poles as sea turtles do. But there’s one animal sense we can learn: bat-like echolocation.

Researchers in Japan demonstrated this feat in a paper published in the journal , proving that humans can use

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