BCP 102 SO: v5 (First Timers)

DOLPHIN SONAR:   When a dolphin sends out sonar, it hears the returning sonar through its jaw.

DOLPHIN SONAR: A dolphin can launch their 500+ pound muscle mass 28 feet out of the water.

DOLPHIN SONAR:   The guidance system of dolphins is much more complex than the sonar in our nuclear submarines.

DOLPHIN SONAR:   Dolphins can detect a pea a football field away using only their sonar!

DOLPHIN SONAR: When they are 18 feet away, dolphins can use their sonar to tell the difference between two balls that differ in width by less than the thickness of a hair!

DOLPHIN SONAR:   Dolphin sonar has a sonar blast that leaves the middle of their head that is as loud as a cannon being fired 6” from your ear.

DOLPHIN SONAR:   The loud sonar sound that dolphins give off can be shot out at only 10 pulses a second.

DOLPHIN SONAR:   These sonar pulses of dolphins can be aimed.

DOLPHIN SONAR:   When the dolphin wants to catch something that is far away, its sonar beams are focused tightly like you would a focus a mini-mag flashlight.

DOLPHIN SONAR: When the dolphin gets closer to the meal it wants to catch, it will make its sonar beams less wide.