{"id":5815,"date":"2024-10-03T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T13:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guardna.wpenginepowered.com\/echolocation\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:06:25","slug":"echolocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/echolocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Echolocation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A biological sonar used by toothed whales to determine the location of objects using sound. The echolocation is used for orientation in the space, for hunting, and in social interactions. Toothed whales have a special organ in the front of their head\u2014melon\u2014made of fatty tissue that acts as a sound lens.  <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Echolocation_Credit_Zainuddin-Lubis-2016.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 839px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 839\/495;width:500px;height:auto\" class=\"center lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\" style=\"font-size: 15px;text-align: center;\">Echolocation mechanism \u00a9 Zainuddin Lubis (2016)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A biological sonar used by toothed whales to determine the location of objects using sound. The echolocation is used for orientation in the space, for hunting, and in social interactions. Toothed whales have a special organ in the front of their head\u2014melon\u2014made of fatty tissue that acts as a sound lens. Echolocation mechanism \u00a9 Zainuddin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,158,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-15-years-fao","category-e-fao","category-glossary-fao"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Marina Metic","author_link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/author\/marinam\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}