Evidence for echolocation in harbour seals
- 1 November 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 60 (4) , 1039-1042
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400042077
Abstract
Evidence is given which suggests that harbour seals use some form of echolocation. When visual cues are reduced, these seals make click vocalizations similar to those of animals which are known to echolocate. They are able to find live fish in total darkness, producing clicks while doing so.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- A preliminary account of gray seals and harbor seals at Saint-Pierre and MiquelonThe Canadian Field-Naturalist, 1974