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The new algorithm was able to identify consistent patterns in a dataset of over 50 million echolocation clicks recorded in the Gulf of Mexico over a two - year period.

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.

Previous research suggested that these marine mammals could dull their hearing before uttering outgoing echolocation clicks, which are very loud.

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The researchers also used the recordings to propose a mathematical model that could be used to synthesize mouth clicks made during human echolocation.

In the new study, the researchers set out to provide physical descriptions of the mouth clicks used by each of the three participants during echolocation.

Like some bats and marine mammals, people can develop expert echolocation skills, in which they produce a clicking sound with their mouths and listen to the reflected sound waves to «see» their surroundings.

But a 2014 study found three fruit bat species sometimes use a rudimentary method of echolocation: They make a clicking noise with their wings to navigate in darkness.

A new study published in PLOS Computational Biology provides the first in - depth analysis of the mouth clicks used in human echolocation.