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What does echolocator mean?

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Noun
  1. An organism capable of echolocation.
  2. An organ that performs echolocation within an organism.
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A special section is devoted to a detailed study of the ability of dolphins to distinguish by means of the echolocator the size, shape, and also the material from which the objects are made.
Our bioacoustical and electrophysiological experiments have shown that the echolocator of bats is provided with a perfect interference protection mechanism.
Echolocation divulges a great deal of information about the echolocator itself, and so permits intraspecific and interspecific piracy of information, a consequence that could be inconvenient or fatal.
Maybe if this works out you could use an echolocator to study the age composition of populations and changes in growth rates and things like that.
To an echolocator, tones in a certain frequency range would have a meaning of distance, and a rising pitch would signify shrinking distance.

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