Sentences with phrase «as echolocation»

As the bats search for a place to roost, the structure acts as an acoustic flag, bouncing back the ultrasonic calls the bats emit to navigate (a process known as echolocation) and waving the bats down to a comfortable home.

Bats navigate by bouncing sounds off of objects (an ability known as echolocation), so perhaps it's no surprise that their ears work a lot like mini-radar dishes.

Not exact matches

Harbor porpoises are frequently exposed to sounds from shipping vessels that register at around 100 decibels, about as loud as a lawnmower, scientists report February 14 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Sounds this loud can cause porpoises to stop echolocation, which they use to catch food.

Human echolocation shares some similarities with animal echolocation, though people use the skill to compensate for their sight, rather than as an additional sense.

Elizabeth Preston wrote about a blind 13 - year - old boy who has learned to use echolocation, a way of seeing with sound, more commonly associated with animals such as bats and dolphins.

«It's a byproduct of our hearing system that we can use echolocation, so we're not as proficient at it as bats,» Schenkman said.

Some creatures, such as dolphins, resort to echolocation.

While pilot whales make whistles, buzzes and clicks, pods of hunting dolphins create high - pitched echolocation clicks and larger species such as sperm whales make louder, slower clicks.

No one taught him the technique, which is now recognized as a human form of echolocation.

Echolocation is a skill that has evolved independently several times in the animal kingdom in response to low visibility conditions — whether at night, as with bats and a few nocturnal birds, or in murky water, as with whales and dolphins, Wiegrebe notes.

Still, neurobiologist Constance Scharff of the Free University of Berlin in Germany notes that to really make the case for a role of FOXP2 in echolocation, functional studies are necessary, such as knocking out the gene.

But bottom - dwelling fish, such as barred sandperch, which are favored by some Shark Bay dolphins, don't have swim bladders and so are harder to find with echolocation.

The interfering bats produce an ultrasonic signal just as the foraging bat produces its feeding call, effectively jamming the echolocation signal and causing the forager to miss its target.

«This is a case of active electrolocation, in principle the same as the active echolocation of bats, which use ultrasound to perceive a three - dimensional image of their environment,» says Professor Dr. Gerhard von der Emde at the Institute of Zoology at the University of Bonn.

The show explains many aspects of whales, from their evolution from small land animals 50 million years ago, to the ability of some of them to use echolocation, as well as their cultural and social complexities.

In the wild, the movement of the frog's vocal sacs as they inflate before they croak can be picked up by echolocation, so the bats could use both listening (eavesdropping) and echolocation for hunting.

«The crux is being able to fly as efficiently as possible while also having optimal echolocation ability.

As the researchers examined audio recordings from two bats flying and foraging together, they noticed calls that seemed different from typical echolocation.

Factors such as humidity and temperature can affect how Rhinolophus clivosus use echolocation.

While studying for graduate school, I worked part - time as Veterinary Technician at an emergency animal clinic, plus I volunteered and started my thesis research on dolphin echolocation at the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.

This ramps up tension as you seek to complete your objective all while only being able to see through echolocation by tapping your cane.

«You play as a blind thief named «Claire,» who uses an echolocation program to provide hearing to navigate through the levels in order to steal objects.

Even though we can understand the languages of many animals, studying how members of a species use communication can help us with our technology, as scientists are showing through studying bats and their echolocation abilities.