What does echolocate mean?

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  1. To locate by means of echolocation.
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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.
Toothed whales echolocate by producing clicking sounds and then receiving and interpreting the resulting echo.
Unlike modern bats, though, their bodies lacked the telltale bony structures that would permit them to echolocate flying prey.
Like other odontocetes, delphinids echolocate and may even use high-intensity sound to stun their prey.
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.
Rogers speculates leopard seals might use these clicks to echolocate food and air holes during dark, ice-bound winters.

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