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Dolphin Echolocation: How Dolphins Use Sound to Navigate and Hunt

A dolphin chasing fish through cloudy seawater cannot always rely on sight. Yet it can track a fast-moving target, judge its position and close the distance with remarkable precision. Much of that ability comes from dolphin echolocation: a biological sonar system that turns outgoing sounds and returning echoes into information about the surroundings. It is ...