What Is Echolocation? | Earth Unplugged

Echolocation allows animals to build up an understanding of their surroundings but how does it work?


Animals use echolocation to hunt and better understand their surrounds. Animals that practice echolocation create a series of sounds, they can then infer from the strength, pitch and time of the echo where prey are and how they are moving though the surroundings.

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[sueanoimm]

Using slingy as the visualization of sound is the most genius thing I've ever seen! THank you for this video!

[rachelflynn]

I’m watching this for my Quarantine homework

[crushingbelial]

Excellent presenter and awesome information. Appreciated.

[a.m.p.m.]

My daughter has been obsessed with echolocation lately. I think this was a very informative video for her. At least for me it helps to better explain it toher. She's in Kinder, so...lol. A very curious little one.

[sanjaykumar-tebx]

you can also deal with topics such as ultra sound and infra sound with this. what effects does sound have on humans and how we can manage noise pollution. etc etc. very nice video about echolocation. thanks and cheers

[kaitokofuku]

Very interesting video on echolocation.

[katherinerodriguez]

Thank you very helpful video God bless you :)

[kyeclipse]

Liked, Subscribed, And turned that bell on. Great vid!

[joseluismelendezsanchez]

excelent material, thanks a lot, very helpfull for me, however you should review ultrasoung, it starts at 20 000 Hz it is more than 20 000 pulses per second

[Master_Therion]

4:09 The Sperm Whale is a deadly laser.

[sandrarobinson]

loves been buged as a friend.. so much fun

[ivankovac]

hey guys great video :D
and btw i have a question
what happened to the video on the topic how fosils are made because i saw a clip of it at the end of one of your vids and it said something like coming soon but it never came

[mrssusanmiller]

Just enjoyed this with our 8 year old for his Year 4 science homework. It was very well explained and fascinating. Thank you!

[tinglydingle]

Is there a complete video on the guy who's taught himself echolocation? I'd love to learn more!

[skel]

Mum can we get a dog
No we have a dog at home
The dog at home: 1:42

[maazbanuri]

This video saved me from a 40 minutes class

[thoughtbat]

If it's possible to formulate a mental picture through the interpretation of sound, then it's likely the same for light. We only create a mental picture through interpreting the wavelengths of light. Perhaps matter which doesn't interact with baryonic matter could exist in front of our faces but we'd have no way of knowing about it.

[multifandomguy]

4:38 Daniel is truly deserve to be Daredevil. 🤣

[buggernuts]

my favourate part is the fact she looked at the script a few times