Friday, November 14, 2008

Dolphin Echolocation

Hyperboloid Coincident Acoustic Model by Jack Kassewitz and Mark Weber

The bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, has had its dual phonation device(s) described extensively in the literature: it offers both binaural receiving and biphonic (or bivocal) transmitting capabilities. The following model, Photograph 2, is based upon my recording and analyzing their sounds and a bit of a hunch what takes place when you have an outgoing multiple source signal that has coincident wave behavior increasing amplitude arithmetically. A research paper will be forthcoming regarding this new model for echolocation.

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