Nature’s own sonar system, echolocation occurs when an animal emits a sound wave that bounces off an object, returning an echo that provides information about the object’s distance and size.

We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing auditory signals as a world of images like the ones our ...

According to a new study, we may have been thinking about dolphins’ echolocation all wrong. Rather than using it to “see” the ...

For these animals, sonar can replace other senses, such as sight or smell. Without echolocation, they would struggle to find food, avoid predators, or navigate safely, making survival difficult.

As a form of echolocation, the wing method was fairly rudimentary, they found. "We found that even if you put quite large obstacles, wires that were two centimeters [about 0.8 inch] in diameter ...

In case you didn’t already think that bats’ ability to navigate with their ears instead of their eyes was cool enough, get this: Mexican free-tailed bats can actually use biological sonar to ...

Like sonar, echolocation works by projecting sound and listening to the reflection it makes when it hits the different objects of the environment.

And human echolocation has also attracted the attention of academic researchers. One group in Spain determined in 2010 that tongue clicking was more successful than snapping or clapping .

This biological sonar is so precise that bats can use it to track tiny insects while flying at speed. Humans can’t naturally produce sounds in the ultrasonic frequency range. Nor could we hear ...

What animals use echolocation? Of the echolocating critters, bats and toothed whales like dolphins are the all-stars. Dolphins are able to detect objects more than 300 feet away, and can even tell ...

Human echolocation has been “discovered” many times over the past few decades, most famously in the 1960s by the experimental psychologist—and one-time parent to a chimpanzee—Winthrop Kellogg.

Bats map the world around them using echolocation. New research shows that an echo's strength doesn’t tell bats the size of objects, and instead they use sonar aperture.