Which phenomenon do bats or dolphins use to find prey predators or obstacles ? (a)Refraction of sound (b)Formation of beats (c)Scattering of sound (d)Echo location
Option D) Echolocation, also called biosonar, is the biological sonar used by several kinds of animals. Echolocating animals emit calls out to the environment and listen to the echoes of those calls that return from various objects near them. They use these echoes to locate and identify the objects. Echolocating animals include some mammals and a few birds; most notably microchiro-pteran bats and odontocetes (toothed whales and dolphins), but also in simpler form in other groups such as shrews, one genus of megachiropteran bats (Rousettus) and two cave dwelling bird groups, the so-called cave swiftlets in the genus Aerodramus (formerly Collocalia) and the unrelated Oilbird Steatornis caripensis.
