Sentences with phrase «echolocation at»

Emily Jones is presenting solo exhibition Echolocation at Turin's Almanac, opening October 27 and running to December 10.

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.

«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.

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.

But why do many species of porpoises and other small toothed whales emit echolocation sounds at about 130 kHz?

«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.

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

The virtual corridor is a «very creative» way to determine just how important body movements are to echolocation, says Lore Thaler, a psychologist at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

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.

It's not just bats that navigate at night using a form of sonar — so might a dormouse, and if so it could tell us whether bats» echolocation preceded flight

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.

«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.

At least one species of bat is known to use echolocation to pick up on the ripples created in the pond by the male frogs inflating and deflating their vocal sacs while calling.

Showcased at E3 this year, this videogame asks players to see the world through sound; similar to how echolocation would work underwater.

Looking at how bats use echolocation and decoding how it's done is bringing scientists closer to better ways of using sonar for everything from maneuvering robotic vehicles to finding flaws in building structures.

Lead author Simon Whiteley from the Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, said, «We aim to understand the echolocation process that bats have evolved over millennia, and employ similar signals and techniques in engineering systems.

These animals are superstars at echolocation, and learning how their brains work will lead to breakthroughs.