Question: How does sonar work? Answer: The word “SONAR” stands for SOund Navigation And Ranging. For both humans and animals, it is a way to understand what’s around you using sound instead of sight.

Toothed whales use sound to find their way around, detect objects and catch fish. They can investigate their environment by making clicking sounds, and then decoding the “echoic return signal” created ...

Echolocation is one of evolution’s most remarkable solutions to life in darkness. This video explores how certain animals developed the ability to navigate, hunt, and understand their surroundings ...

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Reverberation localization (echolocation) is a method of knowing the distance, direction, size, etc. of an object from the echo of the emitted sound or ultrasonic waves, and is known to be performed ...

Like some bats and marine mammals, people can develop expert echolocation skills, in which they produce a clicking sound with their mouths and listen to the reflected sound waves to 'see' their ...

Daniel Kish has been blind since he was 13 months old, but if you were to watch him from a distance, you wouldn’t know it. Walking down the street, the 47-year-old looks like anyone else. When he ...

Humans, when you train them, can be phenomenally good at pattern recognition. Our long history as the descendants of organisms who could spot a predator in dappled grass probably has something to do ...

Bats are adapting to human noise by changing their hunting strategies, according to a new study. That’s good news for bats, since the number of city-dwellers in the world is expected to increase to ...