Echolocation

How does echolocation work?

Echolocation is used by animals such as bats,dolphins and whales to navigate and locate prey. When they make high pitched noises the sound reflects when it hits a nearby object. It bounces off the object and into the animals sensitive ears. This tells the animals were the prey is.

Ben is a boy that uses Echolocation to navigate himself to places. He makes noises with his mouth, and when he makes sounds with his mouth it will reflect back to him so he will know what is heading to him. It’s just as what bats do. They make a sound and then it will reflect back to it. Then it can tell what is near and how big it is.

Bat are as the same as what marine animals do. But marine mammals use echolocation to transport in their places while using a high pitch sound to find their prey.