Echolocating toothed whales use ultra-fast echo-kinetic responses to track evasive prey

H Vance, PT Madsen, NA de Soto, DM Wisniewska… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Visual predators rely on fast-acting optokinetic responses to track and capture agile prey.
Most toothed whales, however, rely on echolocation for hunting and have converged on …

Dolphin echolocation behaviour during active long-range target approaches

M Ladegaard, J Mulsow, DS Houser… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Echolocating toothed whales generally adjust click intensity and rate according to target
range to ensure that echoes from targets of interest arrive before a subsequent click is …

Echolocation behaviour adapted to prey in foraging Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris)

M Johnson, LS Hickmott… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Toothed whales echolocating in the wild generate clicks with low repetition rates to locate
prey but then produce rapid sequences of clicks, called buzzes, when attempting to capture …

Buzzing during biosonar-based interception of prey in the delphinids Tursiops truncatus and Pseudorca crassidens

DM Wisniewska, M Johnson… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
Echolocating bats and toothed whales probe their environment with ultrasonic sound pulses,
using returning echoes to navigate and find prey in a process that appears to have resulted …

Acoustic gaze adjustments during active target selection in echolocating porpoises

DM Wisniewska, M Johnson… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
Visually dominant animals use gaze adjustments to organize perceptual inputs for cognitive
processing. Thereby they manage the massive sensory load from complex and noisy …

Biosonar performance of foraging beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris)

PT Madsen, M Johnson, NA De Soto… - Journal of …, 2005 - journals.biologists.com
Toothed whales (Cetacea, odontoceti) emit sound pulses to probe their surroundings by
active echolocation. Non-invasive, acoustic Dtags were placed on deep-diving Blainville's …

Context-dependent biosonar adjustments during active target approaches in echolocating harbour porpoises

M Ladegaard, PT Madsen - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Echolocating mammals generally target individual prey items by transitioning through the
biosonar phases of search (slow-rate, high-amplitude outputs), approach (gradually …

Sperm whale echolocation behaviour reveals a directed, prior-based search strategy informed by prey distribution

A Fais, N Aguilar Soto, M Johnson… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2015 - Springer
Predators make foraging decisions based upon sensory information about resource
availability, but little is known about how large, air-breathing predators collect and use such …

Large sensory volumes enable Southern elephant seals to exploit sparse deep-sea prey

M Chevallay, P Goulet, PT Madsen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The ability of echolocating toothed whales to detect and classify prey at long ranges enables
efficient searching and stalking of sparse prey in these time-limited dives. However …

Biosonar adjustments to target range of echolocating bottlenose dolphins(Tursiops sp.) in the wild

FH Jensen, L Bejder, M Wahlberg… - Journal of …, 2009 - journals.biologists.com
Toothed whales use echolocation to locate and track prey. Most knowledge of toothed whale
echolocation stems from studies on trained animals, and little is known about how toothed …