Sentences with phrase «on echolocation»

These changes were not shared with more distantly related bats or bats that don't depend on echolocation.

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.

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

In 1944 in an issue of Science, he proposed the term «echolocation» to cover not only «locating obstacles by means of echoes» in bats, but also by people, including via radar, fathometers and submarines using «apparatus working on the same basic principles.»

This illusion, thought to be based on the lifter's cognitive expectations, and the fact that it is also present in blind echolocators, but not in blind non-echolocators, shows that echolocation is an effective form of sensory substitution for vision.

In the first study to assess the effects of shipping vessel noise on porpoises, researchers tagged seven harbor porpoises off the coast of Denmark with sensors that tracked the animals» movement and echolocation usage in response to underwater noise over about 20 hours.

It is an unusual creature that swims on its side, can not see and uses echolocation to navigate murky rivers in Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

The discovery means that the European barbastelle bat (Barbastella barbastellus) is no longer the only bat to use stealth echolocation to sneak up on moths.

«In effect, the echolocation of Pallas's long - tongued bats is too quiet for the moths to hear and allows them to sneak up on their target using a stealth tactic.»

Until recently, biologists had thought that different genes drove each instance of echolocation and that the relevant proteins could change in innumerable ways to take on new functions.

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.

Most crickets distinguish between mates and predators based on the frequency of sound: male crickets produce low frequency calls to attract females, while bats produce high frequency (ultrasonic) sounds for echolocation.

The Mexican free - tailed bat sabotages the echolocation signals of its fellows so that it can home in on their winged prey for itself

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.

The research, performed by Lore Thaler of Durham University, U.K., Galen Reich and Michael Antoniou of Birmingham University, U.K., and colleagues, focuses on three blind adults who have been expertly trained in echolocation.

Hippocampal representations remapped between vision and echolocation via two kinds of remapping: subiculum neurons turned on or off, while CA1 neurons shifted their place fields.

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.

Perception «s focus on blindness results in a very unique graphical style, but I can't help but feel that the echolocation visuals become severely repetitive after a while.

With her solo exhibition «Echolocation», London - based Emily Jones celebrates the opening of the new venue of Almanac Inn (Via Reggio 13, near the Mole Antonelliana), a non-profit focused on young artists, which has another outpost in South London.

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.