Really interesting comparison of bat 🦇 and porpoise 🐬 echolocation by some great colleagues!
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New Research: Functional Analyses of Peripheral Auditory System Adaptations for Echolocation in Air vs. Water: The similarity of acoustic tasks performed by odontocete (toothed whale) and microchiropteran (insectivorous bat) biosonar suggests… https://t.co
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Read the full paper (with more amazing images and videos of several different species) here: https://t.co/09NcoeZ1nE
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#Echolocation is an amazing ability that evolved separately in animals that live in air like #bats 🦇or in water like #dolphins 🐬. New work from Darlene Ketten explores how the inner ears of these very different animals support echolocation: @BostonU_BME h