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  2. Animal echolocation - Wikipedia

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    Echolocating bats use echolocation to navigate and forage, often in total darkness. They generally emerge from their roosts in caves, attics, or trees at dusk and hunt for insects into the night. Using echolocation, bats can determine how far away an object is, the object's size, shape and density, and the direction (if any) that an object is ...

  3. Spider behavior - Wikipedia

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    Bolas: Bolas spiders are unusual orb-weaver spiders that do not spin the webs. Instead, they hunt by using a sticky 'capture blob' of silk on the end of a line, known as a ' bolas '. By swinging the bolas at flying male moths or moth flies nearby, the spider may snag its prey rather like a fisherman snagging a fish on a hook.

  4. Animal communication - Wikipedia

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    Dogs do not make use of direction of gaze or exhibit left gaze bias with other dogs. A new approach in the 21st century in the field of animal communication uses applied behavioural analysis, specifically functional communication training. This form of training previously has been used in schools and clinics with humans with special needs, such ...

  5. Do sleeping humans really swallow 8 spiders a year? - AOL

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    A spider could also simply climb into someone's mouth. But Rod Crawford, arachnid curator at the Burke Museum, said "spiders probably find sleeping humans terrifying" because we "create vibrations ...

  6. Human echolocation - Wikipedia

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    The 2017 video game Perception places the player in the role of a blind woman who must use echolocation to navigate the environment. [35] In the 2012 film Imagine, the main character teaches echolocation to students at a clinic for the visually impaired. This unconventional method spurs a controversy but helps students explore the world.

  7. Category:Animals that use echolocation - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 9 September 2016, at 12:16 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. How a 'zombie firefly' lures other bugs to their death - AOL

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    There are a few possibilities: The spider is biting the firefly, the spider weaves it silk around the firefly, or the spider's venom is affecting the firefly. An orb-weaver spider manipulates a ...

  9. The 10 Most Common House Spiders to Look Out For, According ...

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    Spiders are beneficial bugs that help control other pest insects such as flies, adult mosquitoes, ants, etc.” Capture and release can look like using a cup and a piece of paper to capture and ...