How to Use echolocation in a Sentence

echolocation

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• Bats use echolocation to hunt for their meals, and moths are often on the menu.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 21 July 2021
• The noise can drown out echolocation pings necessary to find food and mates.
  — Christina Couch, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2020
• About half of all living bat species have cleft palates—a feature that may be tied to bat echolocation.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
• The ears are equipped for echolocation, and aye-ayes are the largest nocturnal primates in the world, Hartstone-Rose says.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 22 Oct. 2019
• Like bats, the dolphins use echolocation to forage for prey in the cloudy waters of the Orinoco and Amazon River basins.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
• The Clicker is forced to use its titular clicking sounds as a form of echolocation to find prey.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023
• The Idalus herois tiger moth produces clicks to jam the natural sonar of bats, which use echolocation to track down prey.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2016
• The echolocation abilities of bats and whales, though different in their details, rely on the same changes to the same gene - Prestin.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2010
• The whales emit rapid clicking sounds to use echolocation, rather than sight, to communicate and hunt.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2021
• The constant drone of boat noise interferes with the whales’ echolocation and ability to hunt.
  — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• River dolphins, such as those that live in the Amazon River, make even greater use of echolocation.
  — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
• Some animals, like toothed whales, use echolocation to find their prey.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022
• The fungus sprouts from its host’s head, like a grotesque mushroom, blinding them over time and forcing them to use echolocation to attack.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2023
• These mammals use rapid-fire echolocation, a sign of hunting, when the fishers are casting.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 2 Feb. 2023
• Dolphins have a much wider echolocation span that exceeds 300 feet.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• Later the moth’s wing eye spots confuse predators, while its long tails may have evolved to confuse the radar-like echolocation of hungry bats.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Let’s find bats night hike For age 6 and older, learn about bats using a detector and an echolocation.
  — Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• Dolphins and bats have their own, more complete versions of this echolocation.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
• The fungus takes over victims’ nervous systems, rips through their eyes, and they’re forced to use echolocation to feast on human flesh.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 23 Oct. 2022
• These pressure sensors seem to enable a kind of tactile echolocation: With their beaks plunged deep into the mud and sand, the shorebirds can sense the movement of prey.
  — Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
• Many predators rely on echolocation to find prey, and those echoes bounce off of shells clear as a bell, making the creature easier to find.
  — Colin Dickey, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017
• Large ears actually have little to do with echolocation, the bat's built-in sonar that sends out sound waves and detects the echo bouncing off a prey item, such as a moth.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 12 Apr. 2019
• The information from this process of echolocation tells the flying mammals the precise path of their fast-moving food.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2018
• For age 6 and older, learn about bats using a detector and an echolocation.
  — Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• The bats’ super-powered volume helps them use echolocation to zero in on small, swift insect meals.
  — Jessica Boddy, Popular Science, 3 Feb. 2020
• And bats that use echolocation have an impressive, seven-octave vocal range to match their sound needs, the researchers said.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
• Using echolocation, the hosts descend on their guests, trying to infect them with boring chitchat.
  — Nina Sharma, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2023
• Orcas seek and find their prey by echolocation, which can be overwhelmed by the racket of container ships and whale-watch boats and other vessels.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 28 June 2017
• Residents hunt in large groups using echolocation, and transients hunt silently in small groups.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• Swiftlets are fast-flying, insect-eating birds that can cover vast distances in a day, using echolocation to navigate in low-light environments.
  — Muktita Suhartono Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024