Donald Redfield Griffin (August 3, 1915 - November 7, 2003) was an American professor of zoology at various universities who did seminal research in animal behavior, animal navigation, acoustic orientation and ...

After losing his sight to cancer at age two, Ben Underwood taught himself to "see" using echolocation. By making a clicking sound and then listening to how the sound bounced ...

Echolocation, also called biosonar, is the biological sonar used by several animals such as shrews, most bats, and most cetaceans. The term was coined by Donald Griffin ...

Biomimicry, also known biomimetics, constitutes a thorough analysis of nature, along with its associated models, systems, processes, and elements to copy or garner characteristics from to better resolve and deal ...

An Ultrasound is a wave with a frequency greater than 20,000 Hz, reaching and exceeding the upper limits of the human hearing capacity. These waves occur in nature amongst ...

Neuroethology (from Greek νεῦρον - neuron "nerve" and ἦθος - ethos "habit or custom") is the evolutionary and comparative approach to the study of animal behavior and its underlying mechanistic control by ...

The Indus River is the most important river in Pakistan, and also the longest river. It begins in Tibet and flows into the Arabian Sea. The river system is fed ...

Frogs and toads produce a rich variety of sounds, calls, and songs during their courtship and mating rituals. The callers, usually males, make stereotyped sounds in order to ...