Dolphins comprehend pointing -- again, something chimpanzees typically struggle with. Considering dolphins don't have arms, this ability is perhaps all the more amazing, although researchers suspect dolphins' experience with echolocation prepares them for the concept. Dolphins also seem to demonstrate sel...
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Teaching middle school students about animal behavior and communication can be fun as well as important. This lesson offers some activities that...
whale songs and echolocation All dolphins and whales have a blow hole at the top of the head through which they breathe air from the surface. The blow hole is effectively a single nostril. Within the blow hole aredelicate folds of skin known as "phonic lips"that create all the different c...
The abbreviation given by its authors is DE; however, so as not to confuse it with Differential Evolution, Dolphin Echolocation will be denoted by DEO in this work. It mimics the manner in which sound, in the form of clicks, is used to track and aim objects. Distinctively from the bat ...
High-frequency burst-pulse sounds in agonistic/aggressive interactions in bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus. In Echolocation in Bats and Dolphins; Thomas, J.A., Moss, C.F., Vater, M., Eds.; University of Chicago: Chicago, IL, USA, 2004; pp. 425–431. 12. Vannoni, E.; Torriani...
How do dolphins sleep? Dolphins' communication skills are very sophisticated. By emitting sound waves that bounce off objects and return to them (echolocation) a dolphin can gather information about the surrounding environment to accurately navigate and hunt. A dolphin pod will also communicate with ...
Griffin at this point was a well-respected scientist who had recently made the discovery that bats use echolocation, or sonar, to navigate their surroundings. But after the publication of his book, his professional reputation was largely ruined. Even Jane Goodall caught some flak for going so ...
2006); birds, too, sing for territorial and reproductive reasons (Catchpole and Slater 2008); bats emit clicks for echolocation during hunting and navigating, as do dolphins (Madsen and Surlykke 2013). In order to study animals by listening to their sounds, sounds need to be classified to ...
it must be resolved extremely rapidly, at flight speeds up to 10 m per second, with ultra-sonar echoes from the ground, branches, insects, etc., and in some cases with thousands of animals in the air simultaneously, nearly brushing wings with each other (Ulanovsky and Moss2008). How can...