Is echolocation a physiological adaptation of dolphins?
yes and its a very extraordinary adaption that we are still unable to fully duplicate. echolocation is only known to belong to toothed whales. echolocation is when a dolphin sends out a series of sound waves from their melon (a jelly substance in their forehead) out into their environment. those sound waves bounce off of objects, like fish, and come back to them, into their lower jaw and it travels all the way up to their ears and into their brain where they can create a mental picture and know the size, density, structure, texture, how fast, and which direction an object is traveling. echolocation can be heard by the human ears. with dolphins it sort of sounds like a creaky door or mosquito buzzing. i have heard of people who have experience a sperm whales echolocation, which was described as a big sub woofers bass bouncing on the person.
