Sentences with phrase «echolocation abilities»

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.

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.

This ability sets them apart from many other toothed whales, which do not have such sophisticated echolocation abilities.

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

Despite being blind, she's determined to investigate what exactly has been haunting her, and uses her echolocation ability to help traverse the darkened land before her, and uncover secrets of the large mansion.

Not exact matches

One way to avoid being eaten was to emit echolocation sounds that were difficult for killer whales to detect — thus an ability favored by evolution, «concludes Lee Miller and Magnus Wahlberg in their research article.

Dolphins are famous for their ability to hunt prey via echolocation.

The study appears to be «very solid work,» says Lore Thaler, a psychologist at Durham University in the United Kingdom who studies echolocation, the ability of bats and other animals to use sound to locate objects.

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.

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.

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

Bats have an incredible ability to navigate using echolocation, weaving their way around obstacles and finding prey based on the bouncing around of the sounds they emit.