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... everything from moths to mosquitoes to beetles. They use echolocation to find their prey, which is kind of like radar, rather than ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2018 - 11:14am - 0 attachments

... electrolocation, in principle the same as the active echolocation of bats, which use ultrasound to perceive a three-dimensional ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2016 - 8:48pm - 0 attachments

This is an interesting question I was asked recently on the space show. It's inspired by this  5 note theme from the 1970s movie. (if you don't see videos in this page, try reloading it). It's the theme tune from Close Encounter ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Sep 24 2015 - 6:23pm - 0 attachments

... finger clicks to recognize objects in the distance, such echolocation can almost be a radar 'replacement' for vision.  Recent research showed that echolocation in blind individuals is a full form of sensory substitution, and ...

Article - News Staff - May 25 2015 - 10:23am - 0 attachments

... when we think about bats and flying, most people think of echolocation and their built-in radar. But that doesn't help while banking hard ... touch has received little attention since the discovery of echolocation. Recently, co-senior study author Cynthia Moss and co-author ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2015 - 8:33am - 0 attachments

... becoming a meal aren't much use against a predator using echolocation. But a new study shows that moths can outsmart sonar with a flick ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2015 - 1:01pm - 0 attachments

According to some papers, human echolocation is another "sense," working in tandem with hearing and touch to ... A new paper adds evidence for the vision-like qualities of echolocation in blind echolocators - by wrongly judging how heavy objects of ... experience a "size-weight illusion" when they use their echolocation to get a sense of how big objects are, in just the same way as ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 29 2014 - 5:00pm - 0 attachments

... need to track prey through crowded scenes, albeit with echolocation rather than vision, they have evolved to become an ideal testbed ... The answer, Simmons writes, comes from the physics of the echolocation sound waves and how bat brains have evolved to process their ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2014 - 10:30am - 0 attachments

... of electric fields by fish works much the same as echolocation does for bats, says Albert. "These fish are nocturnal and the vast ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 3:47pm - 0 attachments

... walk again. Bats can detect their prey’s movements using echolocation but can also eavesdrop and detect the calls of singing animals ... and by evolving an ear that can detect the ultrasonic echolocation calls of the bats. Although some bats can detect 150 kHz, by ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2014 - 11:00am - 0 attachments