Something Clicks for Dolphin Identification
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 13 December 2017
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:37.0 | Light doesn't travel well underwater, |
| 0:39.0 | so dolphins and other toothed whales navigate like bats using eco-locating clicks. |
| 0:45.0 | They're like lasers of sounds that they produce out of their forehead and they bounce them off of things the same way bats do to interpret their environment. |
| 0:55.0 | Kate Frazier is an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, |
| 0:59.0 | and her studies of underwater clicks include tossing computers, worth about $100,000 each over the side of a ship |
| 1:06.0 | into the Gulf of Mexico. |
| 1:07.0 | It just feels so wrong and then a year later you go back, you send out this little ping |
| 1:12.1 | signal and goes, do-toot-toot-toot-toot and goes do to do to do and that goes out to the instrument and it |
| 1:16.8 | drops its weights and just floats to the surface and it's like this magical moment you know |
| 1:22.0 | oh my gosh I never thought we'd get that back. it's like this magical moment, you know? |
| 1:23.0 | Oh my gosh, I never thought we'd get that back. |
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