Did you know whales and dolphins don’t have external ears like us?
Instead, they hear through special structures in their jawbones! Using clicks and whistles called echolocation, they send out sound waves and interpret the echoes to navigate, hunt, and communicate underwater.
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Transcript: Whales and dolphins don’t have external sticky out ears like ours to funnel sound as they need to be streamlined for life in the water. Their ear canals are not open to the outside. Instead, they generally hear sounds through special structures in their jawbones. Dolphins and whales communicate with each other using a series of clicks and whistles, called echolocation, that emit sound waves and detect and interpret the echoes that bounce back off other creatures and objects in the water around them. Very interesting!