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How do whales bats dolphins use sounds?

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by using echolocation

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What animmals use echolocation?

Bats and toothed whales (dolphins, porpoises, killer whales, sperm whales, and river dolphins).


What animals use echolocation?

Bats, dolphins, Whales, shrews, flying squirrels use echolocation.


What 3 animals use sound to hunt?

bats dolphins whales


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 and bats use sounds to navigate and hunt?

There put their butts in the air


What do bats use to located food and navigate?

Echolocation it is very similar to the way dolphins and whales use echolocation


Do whales use eclocation?

Dolphins,Porpises and Beaked whales use it.


Which animals use ultrasound waves?

There are many animals that use ultrasound. Some of these anmimals include; cats, dogs, dolphins, mice, fish and whales. the can use it to detect their prey


What is the kind of sound that bats and whales use?

Several animal species are able to hear frequencies well beyond the human hearing range. Some dolphins and bats, for example, can hear frequencies up to 100 kHz. This called ultrasound.Elephants can hear sounds at 14–16 Hz, while some whales can hear subsonic sounds as low as 7 Hz (in water).


Echolocation is a term usually associated with which animal?

Echolocation is when an animal produces a sound and it bounces off things and comes back to the animal. Most bats, dolphins and whales use this. They use it to tell where they are because their eyesight isn't as good as their hearing. Lots of animals then use it. In a simpler form, Animals that cannot see as well as they can hear use it or if they are in the dark.


How do bats and dolfins use ecose?

Dolphins and bats both produce very high pitched sounds and have excellent hearing. The sounds bounce off of objects, creating a very faint echo, which is effected by the objects in the surrounding environment. Dolphins and bats hear this echo, and their brains formulate a mental image of where objects are, there shapes, their sizes, etc. Both dolphins and bats use this for navigation and to detect prey.


What is considered nature's radar?

Nature's radar is echo location. Dolphins and whales use it to communicate underwater and bats use it to find the location of their prey.