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Do dolphins use sound to find a mate?

Echolocation


Does dolphins uses sound to find foods?

they use echolocation


Why do dolphins have teeth?

Dolphins are hunters and they use their teeth to seize hold of their prey, which is usually fish.


How do Dolphins catch their prey?

Like many other dolphins Bottlenose use their flukes (tails) and flippers to create vibrations along the sand/mud along the ocean floor and to move it around. Other fish think that a predator is coming and leap out of the water straight into the incoming dolphins mouth


What is the process called when whales and dolphins use clicks to find their prey?

Echo Location, it's a form of sonar sound they can make that bounces off a solid object and they can sense where it is


Why do dolphins use sound?

dolphins send out a click that bounces off of other objects near them. The longer the time to get the vibrations back to the dolphin is how far away the object is in front of them.


How dolphin use sound?

dolphins are very intelligent animals when its dark they can not they send sounds out to find wear there going and to catch food.


Do Dolphins use sonograms to hunt at night?

Dolphins do not use sonograms; instead, they use a form of echolocation to hunt, which involves emitting sound waves and listening for the echoes that return from objects in their environment. This ability allows them to locate prey even in dark or murky waters, making it effective for hunting at night. By interpreting the returning sounds, dolphins can determine the size, distance, and shape of their prey.


Why do mammals use echolocation?

Most mammals do not have the ability to use echolocation. The mammals that do are bats and dolphins. They use it to navigate and locate prey even when it is difficult to see (for bats, that is at night and in caves, and for dolphins, it is useful in the water when visibility is reduced.


How do dolphins use ultrasound?

Bats and dolphins use ultrasound to locate their prey. They use a SONAR (sound and navigation system). They send out ultrasonic waves using their mouth or nose and when the waves hit an object they bounce of and make an echo. Bats can tell what the object is and even the shape and size of it just because of the sound of the echo.


How are bats and dolphins alike?

Bats and Dolphins both use sound to navigate.


What is it called when bats, whales, and dolphins emit sound waves and interpret the reflect sound waves as a means to locate objects?

Sonar is a system that locates objects by transmitting sound waves and detecting the waves when they are reflected off of objects. Bats and many other animals, such as whales and dolphins, use natural sonar to navigate and capture