Like other odontocetes, delphinids echolocate and may even use high-intensity sound to stun their prey. |
I walked down Vanderbilt Avenue towards my house, sweaty and bereft of the ability to echolocate. |
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. |
These noise disturbances could be hindering the ability of killer whales to communicate and echolocate – the process of using sound to bounce off objects such as prey and identify where they are. |
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. |
Rogers speculates leopard seals might use these clicks to echolocate food and air holes during dark, ice-bound winters. |