Sentences with phrase «used echolocation»

And now it has one, with technology inspired by bats, which can «see» in the dark using echolocation.

Bats don't use radars... they use echolocation.

Bats have good eyesight and most use echolocation (a series of sound waves) to search for food.

Recent research has confirmed that in blind subjects who use echolocation to navigate, it is the visual part of the brain that processes the auditory echoes.

Insect - eating bats use echolocation, a form of sonar, to identify and capture their prey.

The ancestor of whales emerged about 50 million years ago, and the first toothed whales began to use echolocation about 30 million years ago.

Elizabeth Preston wrote about a blind 13 - year - old boy who has learned to use echolocation, a way of seeing with sound, more commonly associated with animals such as bats and dolphins.

With training and practice, people can learn to use the pitch, loudness and timbre of echoes from the cane or other sounds to navigate safely through the environment using echolocation.

«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.

Like dolphins, porpoises use echolocation to detect prey under water up to 30 metres away.

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.

It could be a bat using echolocation to expertly navigate in the dark, or an octopus quickly adapting its behavior to survive in the deep ocean.

«We suspected that they use echolocation,» says Panyutina.

If that's confirmed, it would be the first arboreal mammal known to use echolocation.

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.

«Most people are familiar with bats using echolocation to get around.

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.

It's the first well - documented example of an organism using body shape to confuse predators that use echolocation, the researchers say — the equivalent of fish and insects that display giant eyespots for visual trickery.

Hunting bats don't just listen out for male frogs» mating calls: they can also use echolocation to detect when the frogs inflate their throat sacs

ONE of the first mammals to use echolocation may not have been a bat or a whale, but an early ancestor of horses.

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.

If so, it would be the first tree - living mammal — apart from bats — known to use echolocation.

Most bats use echolocation — a series of ultrasonic chirps — to find their prey.

Modern - day whales that use echolocation possess a melon, or a fat - filled organ in the head, that focuses the sound wave.

These marine mammals have been using echolocation - bouncing high - frequency sounds off underwater objects - to find prey for tens of millions of years.

It may be missing fangs and wings, but this two - eared robot has a few things in common with bats: it recognizes objects using echolocation.

Whales are not the only animals that use echolocation.

Halfwerk's team wanted to find out what happened if the mating calls were obscured by background noise, so they arranged the robot - frogs in such a way that some could only be detected by their croaking while others could also be detected by bats using echolocation.

The show explains many aspects of whales, from their evolution from small land animals 50 million years ago, to the ability of some of them to use echolocation, as well as their cultural and social complexities.

Factors such as humidity and temperature can affect how Rhinolophus clivosus use echolocation.

Goaded by the mysterious Warden, she must explore a twisted and frightening mansion using echolocation.

Blind is a narrative - driven psychological thriller for virtual reality where the player is blind and must explore their surroundings using echolocation.

Despite being blind, she's determined to investigate what exactly has been haunting her, and uses her echolocation ability to help traverse the darkened land before her, and uncover secrets of the large mansion.

She, much like Kish, has a sharp ear and can use echolocation to see the world around her.

«You play as a blind thief named «Claire,» who uses an echolocation program to provide hearing to navigate through the levels in order to steal objects.

Given a special cane, you use echolocation to find your way through the game's mysterious narrative.

In order to see what's in front of you, you need to make noise, and by doing so, your main character can use echolocation.

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.

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.

In fact, the U.S. Navy has an entire program dedicated to training dolphins to detect ship - disabling sea mines using their echolocation abilities — still, even they are wary of arming them.

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.

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.

A prototype of Ted Cranford's noisemaker, which the Navy had hoped to use to detect mines through echolocation.

Human echolocation shares some similarities with animal echolocation, though people use the skill to compensate for their sight, rather than as an additional sense.

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.»

«Exploring the potential of human echolocation: Visually impaired people use the pitch, loudness and timbre of echoes to locate nearby objects.»

People who become blind early in life often learn to use their hearing, including echolocation, more efficiently.

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

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.»