Sentences with phrase «with echolocation»

Boom Boxes Ultrasonic «boom boxes» that emit continuous high - frequency sounds from 20 to 100 kilohertz deter bats from getting too close to turbines by interfering with their echolocation.

But some surfaces, especially human - made ones, could mess with echolocation.

But bottom - dwelling fish, such as barred sandperch, which are favored by some Shark Bay dolphins, don't have swim bladders and so are harder to find with echolocation.

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

Preston describes ways in which her young readers can themselves experiment with echolocation.

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 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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

But for individuals who became impaired later in life, echolocation training can help them to move through the world with greater independence and safety.

Some species of dolphins and whales adapted to the new environment by evolving echolocation, which allows them to «see» with their ears.

Research done by Dr. Mel Goodale, from the University of Western Ontario, in Canada, and colleagues around the world, is showing that echolocation in blind individuals is a full form of sensory substitution, and that blind echolocation experts recruit regions of the brain normally associated with visual perception when making echo - based assessments of objects.

Why they work is still a mystery: They may cause discomfort, interfere with marine mammals» echolocation, or become associated with nets.

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.

To test the extent to which people can compensate for this immobility, Wiegrebe and colleagues recruited eight undergraduates with normal vision to don blindfolds and learn some basic echolocation skills.

Echolocation is a skill that has evolved independently several times in the animal kingdom in response to low visibility conditions — whether at night, as with bats and a few nocturnal birds, or in murky water, as with whales and dolphins, Wiegrebe notes.

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

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

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.

The whale's genus name, Cotylocara, means «cavity head» in recognition of a very deep pocket atop its skull thought to be associated with an air sinus used in echolocation.

This unique adaptation helps them communicate with other belugas and find food through echolocation.

They generally attack with bites and modified echolocation.

[Checking out student game and IGF Student Showcase winner The Devil's Tuning Fork, Andrew Vanden Bossche examines its unique echolocation mechanic in conversation with the development team.]

Whilst Perception's spine - chilling narrative adventure doesn't do anything overly spectacular throughout its four - hour runtime, it did offer something unique with its use of echolocation gameplay.

Other Half Orbit by Jeremiah Barber with Ingrid Rojas Contreras (which already occurred), and Fathoming a Cave with Hott and musician Laura Steenberge, both explore the edges of perception through investigations into memories and dreams, and sounding and echolocation, respectively.

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.

Drawn to geometry, energy waves, and universal symbols, Despont's interests reveal a fascination with underlying patterns and cosmological draughtsmen: Rudolf Steiner, Carl Jung, Agnes Martin, Charles Burchfield, Martin Ramirez, Achilles G. Rizzoli, Adolf Wölfli, Hilma af Klint, Theosophy, Buddhist medical charts, Shaker gift drawings, seismographs, echolocation, mandalas, yantras, Tantric drawings, maps, gardens, fasciation in plants, beehives, kilim, ikat, Jantar Mantar, and masks.

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.

Last season she wowed the crowds with her bee colony inspired collection, this season her work highlights the mystical twilight beauty of bats with a collection entitled Echolocation.