| He decided that he could compensate for his loss of vision by learning to echolocate, just like a bat, interpreting the shape and dimensions of his surroundings based on how they react to emitted sound waves. |
| Unlike modern bats, though, their bodies lacked the telltale bony structures that would permit them to echolocate flying prey. |
| Rogers speculates leopard seals might use these clicks to echolocate food and air holes during dark, ice-bound winters. |
| Toothed whales echolocate by producing clicking sounds and then receiving and interpreting the resulting echo. |
| Species that echolocate in the lower end of the range, such as the hoary bat found across much of the Americas, can sometimes be heard by attentive humans. |
| Like other odontocetes, delphinids echolocate and may even use high-intensity sound to stun their prey. |
