Sentences with phrase «echolocation systems»
Frog - eating bats pinpoint their prey by their calls, and have evolved unique hearing that allows them to detect both the high - pitched squeaks of their echolocation system and the low - frequency sound of calling frogs.
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«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.
«We have been so impressed by hearing and echolocation that we've ignored other, possible sensory systems in cetaceans,» he says.
Elephant seals do not have a developed system of echolocation in the manner of cetaceans, but their vibrissae (facial whiskers), which are sensitive to vibrations, are assumed to play a role in search of food.
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.