Sentences with phrase «studying 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.

Not exact matches

The rarity of the species makes it difficult to study, but these results could lead to the finding of echolocation across more species within the family and may help to solve ongoing debates about the evolution of echolocation.

«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.

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.

Microbats, the group of bats that emit echolocation signals from the larynx, came under close scrutiny because, surprisingly, some molecular studies divided them into two groups that diverged long ago, suggesting that echolocation evolved twice.

Although the majority of those that use echolocation — emitting sound waves that bounce off objects — to hunt are usually lumped into one group, a new study suggests that some belong in a separate category.

Still, neurobiologist Constance Scharff of the Free University of Berlin in Germany notes that to really make the case for a role of FOXP2 in echolocation, functional studies are necessary, such as knocking out the gene.

Researchers modified a human speech model developed in the 1970s to study dolphin echolocation.

The study showed that microbats fall into two separate categories, reaffirming that throat - derived echolocation evolved twice, the researchers report in the 22 January early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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.

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.

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.

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.