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What (who) is echolocation - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Echo-location; Echo location; Echo- location; Echolocate; Echolocating; Echolocation (disambiguation); Ecolocation; Echo-locate
echolocation
also echo-location
Echolocation is a system used by some animals to determine the position of an object by measuring how long it takes for an echo to return from the object. (TECHNICAL)
Most bats navigate by echolocation.
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echolocation
['?k?(?)l?(?)?ke??(?)n]
¦ noun the location of objects by reflected sound, in particular as used by animals such as dolphins and bats.
echo-location
see echolocation
Wikipedia
Echolocation
Echolocation is the use of sound as a form of navigation.
Examples of use of echolocation
1. Its skeleton shows it could fly, but that it lacked a series of bony features associated with "echolocation," the ability to emit high–pitched sounds and then hear them bounce back from objects and prey, researchers said.
2. Greater horseshoe bat The rarest of our 17 species of bat – and indeed one of our rarest mammals – gets its name from the distinctive horseshoe–shaped flap of skin around its nose, which aids it in the process of echolocation.
3. "These outstanding fossils considerably advance our understanding of bat evolution," researcher John Speakman of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland wrote in a Nature commentary. ___ On the Net: Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature Echolocation: http://www.museumca.org/caves/onli_echo.html