Echolocation
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Title: Echolocation in marine mammals
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Name: Fiona Howlin
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Student Number: 8152578
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Word count: 500
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Date: 22 Nov 2011
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Summary
Echolocation is the biological sonar used by several kinds of animals including some mammals and a few birds; most notably microchiropteran bats and odontocetes (toothed whales and dolphins). Echolocating animals emit calls out to the environment and listen to the echoes of those calls that return from various objects near them. They use these echoes to locate and identify the objects. Echolocation is used for navigation and for foraging (or hunting) in various environments.
Cetacea is a scientific order of large aquatic mammals that have forelimbs modified into flippers, a horizontally flattened tail, one or two nostrils at the top of the head for breathing, and no hind limbs....
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Title: Echolocation in marine mammals
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Name: Fiona Howlin
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Student Number: 8152578
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Word count: 500
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Date: 22 Nov 2011
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Summary
Echolocation is the biological sonar used by several kinds of animals including some mammals and a few birds; most notably microchiropteran bats and odontocetes (toothed whales and dolphins). Echolocating animals emit calls out to the environment and listen to the echoes of those calls that return from various objects near them. They use these echoes to locate and identify the objects. Echolocation is used for navigation and for foraging (or hunting) in various environments.
Cetacea is a scientific order of large aquatic mammals that have forelimbs modified into flippers, a horizontally flattened tail, one or two nostrils at the top of the head for breathing, and no hind limbs....