Echolocation is mainly found in toothed whales, such as dolphins and sperm whales, not their toothless cousins. Thetoothless-whale group-- which includes humpback whales, blue whales and many other species -- possess a unique feeding adaptation called abaleen. The baleen is a wide plate in the...
Researchers think the narwhals use echolocation to communicate as well as hunt. The diving patterns of narwhals aren't completely understood. They're recognized as one of the deepest-diving cetaceans, descending more than a mile (1.6 km) into the ocean, but a mile isn't the norm. A ...
Echolocation is mainly found in toothed whales, such as dolphins and sperm whales, not their toothless cousins. Thetoothless-whale group-- which includes humpback whales, blue whales and many other species -- possess a unique feeding adaptation called abaleen. The baleen is a wide plate in the...
Bats, for example, are able to map their surroundings through sound, thanks to a sonar system used also in other animals such as dolphins and whales. It has been discovered that the sounds produced by these species allow them to form a mental map of their surroundings in three dimensions. ...