Bats and dolphins are the more well-known animals that use echolocation. I know one is underwater and the other is on land, but can they theoretically understand each other? Do the sound waves work like a radio where IF they are on a similar frequency then they'd understand each other.
To put it another way, if humans used echolocation to "see", how would we flip a switch to be able to see everything in a room like we do now? How would that work?
Remember reading this and really enjoying it back in highschool like 6 years ago? Didn't finish it and now that I read more I'd like to go back to it.
I remember the flying creature in large treetops with a bigger flying animal above it? Then figuring out echolocation like spots in the sky, it could visualize prey?
Then the dog like animal eating eggs, big and juicy.
I remember it having a 4 letter title maybe like prey or something? I'd love to order and read this again, big thanks to anyone that can help.
Edit: I read it in English and found it in the highschool library, it was fictional.
Does it actually get represented "graphically", like as a form of vision? Or is it more like our normal hearing where we can identify various sound sources and directions/distances approximately, but just faster and with the brief pulses of their chirps/clicks etc instead of constantly? Or is it more like just an intuition sorta thing, they get a feeling that some whatever is there but they don't directly experience the sense? Do they have to focus to "see" anything in specific like how we tune into one speaker in a crowd, or do they get the whole picture all the time? Do things get different "colors" or "smells" or something of the sort based on the frequencies that get absorbed, or the interference patterns produced by very close surfaces at different distances? Can they see whole objects, or just a general blur or ping for each thing? Do they usually see thru objects with refraction distortions, or usually only the surface bounces the sound loudly enough, or the refracted stuff is too scrambled to be interpreted?
I was watching Blue Planet and being underwater hearing all of the clicks and whistles the dolphins were using made me wonder if all of the dolphins heard each other. Does one big pod(?) of dolphins make a huge beacon of sonar that allows each dolphin in the group to see what the others are seeing? If not and it’s comparable to “how can you tell when your mother or sister calls you?”, is it the frequency that each individual dolphin uses to determine which sound was theirs? Can they only hear one frequency at a time? If not, underwater must be so loud...
Humans have very good vision and any animal with good vision has a lot of information to process and the ability to make decisions about objects that are approaching or running away. In some respects, the ability to see far away implies the ability to plan.
I think the jumping spider, not only considered to be an exceptionally intelligent spider, has exceptionally good vision for a spider.
I'm investigating some audio recordings from Lake Champlain.
Are there animals which can use the sounds from their surrounding to navigate like, for example, bats do with active echolocation?
So like when they some 40 million flying foxes or a few hundred dolphins in a group how do they know which sound is their own? How does it not get overwhelmed by the group?
Night fury’s have echo location when they live on the surffice well the ones we know of since night fury’s aren’t immortal they need a different resting place to die they might have an actual hollow earth unlike the hidden earth witch is limited.this would explain there echo location and how in the first movie toothless is fine sleeping upside down like a bat and has such a odd interaction with it because he should live under ground with his spieces.he’s probably was born on top of berks mountain when his perents were killed by grimmel and he didn’t see the egg.this explains how he apparently killed them all wich would be impossible unless he killed the ones on the surffice while they were hatching eggs or got lost.
Its time to sleep with the light on, hide under the covers, and put Mr Teddy on the night watch. You can't see it, but you know it's there: there's a monster under your bed and its coming to get you.
We all know the feeling, don't we? As children we all thought there was something watching us in the darkness. Under the bed, in the cupboard, in the shadowed corner of the room. Always there no matter how many times your parents checked. The Bed Monster is that same creature given form and stats for 5e. Not only does it have a suite of abilities that lets it stuff itself into small spaces and vanish at will, but more importantly it has its own set of weaknesses. This creature can be a slippery foe to a party of low-level adventurers, but better still its specifically designed so that a group of brave and well-prepared children can, with some luck, face the monster themselves, either as a companion to some adventurers or even with the players being the children!
Monster Under the Bed stat block: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11FQoAhMruFVDFiVqZII78n3xZp5WOEin/view?usp=sharing
What is the Bed Monster?
On some level, this needs no explanation. Its the creature you feared as a child but could never see. But in the worlds of D&D, these creatures are reality.
This lanky fey creature is roughly humanoid in shape, but twice as tall as a human with a narrower body and limbs, and covered in coarse black hair. Its head bears a wide grinning mouth and large yellow eyes. Beyond that, their precise form can vary. Despite their stature, they easily fit into cramped spaces.
They seek to capture and torment children, but not necessarily in that order. While they sometimes eat children, they usually just keep children around and play with them as dolls, or chase them around, all purely for its own depraved amusement. This behavior is not unlike that of a child playing with toys, but Bed Monsters aren't as imaginative as children. While humanoid children can easily conjure up elaborate scenarios in their mind and act them out, alone or with friends, Bed Monsters force their kidnapped prey to invent these scenarios for them, and make them play their part against their will. Bed Monsters love exerting their strength over the helpless, both in reality and in these make-believe scenarios they force captives to play out.
While scouting out potential prey, it will spend weeks or months tormenting children, either a single individual or multiple within a com
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