Echolocation allows animals to build up an understanding of their surroundings but how does it work?
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Animals use echolocation to hunt and better understand their surrounds. Animals that practice echolocation create a series of sounds, they can then infer from the strength, pitch and time of the echo where prey are and how they are moving though the surroundings.
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