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Echolocation

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The Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics

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The final “extrasensory” rhetoric this book explores is that of echolocation. Echolocation is interesting to humans for several reasons. Some wildly popular charismatic megafauna practice it. It is effective for terrestrial mammals, unlike electroception. Moreover, some humans—especially those who have lost their sight—have been able to figure out ways to tap into this ability that humans generally do not employ. However, even those who master the human version of echolocation are like babes in the woods compared to the true masters: microbats and cetaceans.

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Parrish, A.C. (2021). Echolocation. In: The Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76712-9_10

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