Sentences with phrase «dolphin 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.

Researchers modified a human speech model developed in the 1970s to study dolphin echolocation.

Automated classification of dolphin echolocation click types from the Gulf of Mexico.

The algorithm uncovered six previously unknown types of dolphin echolocation clicks in underwater recordings from the Gulf of Mexico, researchers report online December 7 in PLOS Computational Biology.

Not exact matches

«The parallels in echolocation between the bats and the dolphins are striking,» says Brock Fenton, who studies the evolution of bat bones linked with echolocation at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.

Whales and dolphins rely on their responsive hearing to interpret returning echolocation clicks.

If only for a few seconds we could be a bat flying through the darkness with echolocation or a dolphin way down under the sea using sonar clicks.

Environmental critics contend the sonar pulses are too loud, producing a devastating impact on whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals that rely on echolocation to communicate, navigate, and locate prey.

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.

Like dolphins, porpoises use echolocation to detect prey under water up to 30 metres away.

Some species of dolphins and whales adapted to the new environment by evolving echolocation, which allows them to «see» with their ears.

In the wild, the Guiana dolphins probably use their electroreceptors to detect prey at close range while targeting more distant fish with echolocation.

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.

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.

The group could have a leader doing the «talking;» the dolphins may have identified each other using echolocation (the clicks the dolphins send out that echo back from nearby objects), and the whistle was more of a ritual; or the groups may have been together previously and already known each other.

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.

That was also the case for two kinds of bats and toothed whales, a group that includes dolphins and certain whales, that have converged on a specialized hunting strategy called echolocation.

Echolocation is famously well developed in two groups of mammals, the bats and the dolphins and whales.

It is the echolocation that gives the orcas and dolphins the ability to communicate and locate their food.

They are very fast swimmers, reaching speeds of up to 29 miles per hour, averaging about 100 miles per day, which is one of the reasons these dolphins don't do well in captivity.Dolphins have a unique adaptation called echolocation.

In fact, the U.S. Navy has an entire program dedicated to training dolphins to detect ship - disabling sea mines using their echolocation abilities — still, even they are wary of arming them.