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New research suggests that vocal fry among toothed whales is what gives them the ability to echolocate, hunting down their prey with the loudest sounds produced by any animal on the planet.
Dolphins and other toothed whales are large-brained top predators that captivate our imagination; they are extremely social, they cooperate and can hunt prey down to 2 km deep in complete darkness with echolocation.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dolphins, porpoises, killer whales, sperm whales and other toothed whales produce an array of sounds - to find prey employing a sonar-like system called echolocation and to communicate with other members of their species.
Scientists have found the creatures use vocal fry, the low tone of drawn-out syllables commonly employed by American celebrities
Toothed whales produce a low-pitch ‘vocal fry’ using powerful air blasts from their blowholes, helping them locate food in deep water where the pressure collapses their lungs