Echolocation is the method used by some animals (e.g. bats, dolphins and some whales) to determine the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it. These animals emit sound waves and listen for the echo, calculating the distance to the object from the time lapse between sound emission and the echo returning. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16005275 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_echolocation ]
Synonyms: biological sonar perception of environment using reflected sound waves
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9443
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_10090
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9397
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_687454
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9722
Term relations
- nervous system process
- in taxon only Amniota
- only in taxon some Amniota
- not (in taxon some Primates)
- in taxon some (not Primates)
- not (in taxon some Mus musculus)
- in taxon some (not Mus musculus)