In nature animals like bats and dolphins, make use of ______________.
State the use of echo by a bat, dolphin and fisherman.
Explain how the phenomenon of echo is put to use by bats and dolphins in nature.
Nature has equipped animals such as bats and porpoises with a mechanism by which they find their distance from an object using echoes. They emit ultrasonic squeaks which bounce off the surface in front of them and return as echoes. A bat in search of prey hears the echo of its squeak after 0.4 seconds.
What is the frequency range of ultrasonic waves?