This system, called echolocation, helps them catch flying insects on the wing and avoid obstacles at breakneck speeds. Some bats can detect objects as fine as a human hair, just by sound alone.

Echolocation research sheds light on how whales and dolphins use sound by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

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Despite the skill’s usefulness, few blind people have actually learned how to use echolocation. Now, though, researchers say humans can learn echolocation in as little as 10 weeks.

Oh no! You dropped your keys on the ground, and it is too dark to see them. You might have to feel the ground with your hands, but a mouse could use its whiskers to find the keys. Mouse whiskers ...

For a fringe-lipped bat, it’s as though its meal is ringing a dinner bell. Bats navigate the world with echolocation, listening to the sound waves of their own calls bouncing off nearby objects.

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Narwhals rely on sound, specifically echolocation, to communicate, hunt and navigate. Shifts in habitat make North Atlantic right whales harder to track – and to save from extinction ...

Sensory systems include the parts of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information, including the visual system, auditory system, olfactory system, somatosensory system ...