Melon Echolocation

Survival Echolocation

The term echolocation refers to

an ability that odontocetes (and
some other marine mammals
Play and most bats) possess that
enables them essentially to
Behavior Communication "see" with their ears by listening How
Dolphins
Produce
Fun! Blowholes Sound
Catching Riding
a Wave the
Wake of How Dolphins Produce Sound
Inshore
Boats
Behavior breath, it closes its blowhole, and
air returns from the lungs into the
Acoustics Types channel leading to the blowhole and
also into one or more of the air
of sacs. Air is forced out of the air sac
Clicks and over the nasal plug, producing
Social Sounds
the various sounds. In air, dolphins
Structure make sounds by blowing air through

Burst
Pods Pulse Whistles
Pods
Sounds
Pods are the social
grouping that dolphins
swim in. Bottlenose
dolphins usually live in
pods composed of two
to twenty-five dolphins. Dolphins Types of Common
Dolphin
Spotted
Dolphins Dolphin

Sensitive
Anatomy
Nerve Skin Spinner
Salt Water Dolphin
Endings Ganges Amazon
External River River
Dolphins
Dolphin Dolphin
Anatomy
Bottlenose
Dolphin Risso
Fresh Dolphin
Indus Yangtze
River Water River
Dolphin Dolphins Dolphin Tucuxi
Dolphin

Chinese Franciscana
River Dolphin
Dolphin