Echolocation lets animals use sound as a guide in places where vision fails. They send out clicks, chirps, or taps and interpret the returning echoes to find prey, avoid danger, or move confidently in ...

Echolocation is one of evolution’s most remarkable solutions to life in darkness. This video explores how certain animals developed the ability to navigate, hunt, and understand their surroundings ...

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Rescue Crew and Stranded Dolphins: IFAW personnel respond to common dolphins in Wellfleet, Mass., a global hotspot for mass strandings of dolphins. Partnerships and collaborations between researchers ...

Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over kilometer-scale distances using echolocation alone. This finding, recently ...

The use of reflected sounds to navigate, known as echolocation, is a behaviour most associated with bats, whales and dolphins, but other species also use the sensory technique — including humans. It ...