Echolocating toothed whales use ultra-fast echo-kinetic responses to track evasive prey

• Main Authors: Vance, Heather, Madsen, Peter, Aguilar de Soto, Natacha, Wisniewska, Danuta, Ladegaard, Michael, Hooker, Sascha, Johnson, Mark
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Echolocation; toothed-whales; predator-prey interactions; response latency; Harbour Porpoise; Blainville's beaked whale; Vance; Harbour porpoise; toothed whales
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5175844; https://zenodo.org/record/5175844

Visual predators rely on fast-acting optokinetic responses to track and capture agile prey. Most toothed whales, however, rely on echolocation for hunting and have converged on biosonar clicking rates reaching 500/s during prey pu rsuits. If echoes are processed on a click by click basis, as assumed...