VIDEO: Can Humans Utilize True Echolocation?

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Do humans and dolphins share
the echolocation ability?

This is absolutely amazing! Well, can humans utilize a system of seeing with sound waves like dolphins, bats and the like? Amazingly enough, YES! What is echolocation exactly? Here is what Wikipedia says about it:

Echolocation, also called Biosonar, is the biological sonar used by several mammals such as bats (although not all species), dolphins and whales (though not baleen whales). …

Echolocating animals emit calls out to the environment, and listen to the echoes of those calls that return from various objects in the environment. They use these echoes to locate, range, and identify the objects.

Let’s watch how this young boy uses true echolocation with only his mouth and ears …

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