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In water, light is scarce, but sounds travels quickly. In such an environment, toothed whales such as belugas, sperm whales and dolphins cannot rely on their vision alone to orient themselves and locate prey, but can use echolocation. Echolocation works like radar in bats or like ultrasound!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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