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About This Webisode
DOLPHIN LIFESAVERS- PART 2:
How Dolphins See with Sound
In today's world of unmanned underwater vehicles, the bottlenose dolphin is still the Navy's best defense against dangerous underwater mines. The dolphins have a unique ability to find objects using their biological sonar, called echolocation. They produce clicks - and then listen for the echoes as the sound bounces off objects. They can then figure out if the object is a fish or a ship or a mine. Scientists at the Navy's Marine Mammal Program in San Diego, California have developed a "biosonar monitoring tool" so they can study just how echolocation works. One day they would like to build a robot that can do the same thing. Until then, dolphins will be guarding the coastline.
