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This is not Read more. You might have heard the sounds of snapping shrimps when trying to sleep on a boat that was anchored in a shallow sea or when visiting a beach and sticking your head underwater. If you heard something that sounds like you put your ear next to a fresh bowl of Rice Krispies in just-poured milk, then snapping shrimps have probably serenaded you. When snapping shrimps snap, they open their large claw and then quickly slam it closed. However, for at least one tropical species, Alpheus heterochaelis, the amazing sound is not produced from the clap created when the parts of the large claw come together as it is for other snapping shrimps, but instead from a bubble that is created by the rapid closing of the claw.
Studies have demonstrated that when the claw of this species snaps closed a stream of water is forced out of a socket in the claw at a speed of up to 62 mph kph.
This action produces a pressure bubble in its wake. At first the water in the bubble loses pressure, then gains pressure. That loss and gain in pressure causes an air bubble to form, grow and collapse with a very loud bang in a process that occurs within microseconds. Shrimps are not the only crustacean noisemakers. Spiny lobsters not clawed like the Maine lobster often make a squeaky, rasping sound to deter predators or to warn them that the lobster is about to whack them with their spiked antennae.
Communicating through sound is very important in the lives of dolphins and whales. These animals routinely move over great distances, and being highly social creatures they need to stay in contact with each other in the limited visibility of the underwater world. Sound waves travel almost five times faster underwater than in air, thus sound can be quite an effective means of communicating over distances. Whales create sounds produced by the movement and release of air through their blowhole, or blowholes, and by the movement of air through the body, not by vocal cords or beaks.
These mammals emit a series of high-pitched whistling sounds and rattlelike clicks. The sound waves are then analyzed, and it is well documented that toothed whales can determine the speed and direction of moving objects and whether an object might be prey or potential danger.
In addition, the emitted clicks are sometimes used to stun prey, especially small fishes, when toothed whales hunt. Humpback whales are often called the singing whales, and their songs have been well studied in recent years. It is believed that only mature males sing, and that they do so to attract a mate.
When singing, all of the whales position themselves near the surface with their bodies facing at a downward angle. In the world of whales and dolphins it is also believed that sounds produced by slapping their tails tail lobbing and pectoral fins against the surface of the sea as well as the sound produced when the whales crash and splash into the sea as they breach are also part of their communication with one another.
It works very well; there is no way you can walk past a "screaming" dolphin and not reply in some fashion! The sounds that a dolphin makes underwater serve to help them navigate, locate food, glean information about the environment, and to communicate with other dolphins.
There are two hypotheses about how dolphins produce sound underwater. The most widely accepted hypothesis is the nasal sac theory. Sounds are produced in three pairs of air sacs located underneath the blowhole.
After the dolphin takes a breath, it closes its blowhole, and air returns from the lungs into the channel leading to the blowhole, and, into one or more of the air sacs. The air inflates the sacs. At the opening of each air sac is a nasal plug. Air is forced out of the air sac and over the nasal plug, producing the various sounds. The action of these air sacs is similar to filling up a balloon and then squeezing the end to let out the air. The second hypothesis for sound production is that the air sacs act as an acoustical mirror, focusing sound produced by small knobs of fatty tissue just beneath the blowhole.
Tests using an endoscopy with a high speed video camera observed the synchronous movements of the monkey lips and the production of pulses Cranford et al. These sounds produced by the monkey lips will travel in the forward direction through the melon.
The fatty tissue melon located in the forehead area of the dolphin acts like an acoustic lens directing the sound out Au et al. The current research seems to indicate that specialized fatty tissues in the jaw region serve as the primary route for picking up sound to the middle and inner ears Norris, Dolphins make many types of underwater sounds.
The three that are most well-known are their whistles, clicks, and burst pulses. Dolphins produce many different types of whistles. One whistle which dolphins use most frequently, called a signature whistle, appears to serve as identification of individual dolphins since each dolphin develops a signature whistle that is uniquely its own. Dolphins do not appear to be born with a signature whistle.
Calves develop their signature whistles over a four to six month period after birth. This suggests that whistles may communicate other information or serve other purposes. The approximate frequency range of bottlenose dolphin whistles is. Hear a dolphin whistle.
Clicks emitted by dolphins are thought to be exclusively used for echolocation, the dolphin's amazing ability to gather information about its world through sound. Hear dolphin clicks Clicks are produced in rapid sequence, called "click trains," that sound to us like a creaking door or loud buzz. The clicks are produced so rapidly, you have to have special equipment to hear just one of them. The frequency range for echolocation clicks is 0. Because lower frequency sounds travel further, dolphins tend to use lower frequencies when echolocating on objects that are at a distance.
Lower frequency clicks, however, do not deliver as much detailed information about an object as higher frequency clicks. Thus, as the dolphin moves closer to an object, it can increase the frequency of its echolocation to learn more about the object. Dolphins have a waxy, lens-shaped structure in their forehead called the melon that focuses the clicks into a tight beam forward.
When dolphins are examining an object or scanning their environment, their heads move rapidly from side to side as they direct the echolocation beam back and forth across the object or through the environment.
Dolphins may be able to accurately echolocate on objects as far away as yards. However, dolphin echolocation is useless in air. The clicks emitted by a dolphin strike objects in its underwater world and bounce back as echoes to be picked up through the dolphin's lower jaw From the returning echoes, a dolphin can tell the size, shape, distance from, speed, direction of travel, and density of the object.
Thus, dolphins can tell the difference between materials of different densities, even if they look the same.
Dolphins are particularly good at detecting air spaces within objects. Since most fish have a swim bladder filled with air to maintain the fish's equilibrium, dolphins can easily detect fish with their echolocation. Dolphins have an exquisite anti-jamming ability associated with their echolocation. Even in a large group of dolphins all echolocating at once, each dolphin seems to be able to pick out its own echolocation echoes and not collide with another Au et al.
The teeth are perfectly spaced one tooth space apart from each other, and the teeth on one side of the jaw are aligned one half of a tooth space forward than the other side of the jaw.
Dolphins do not echolocate constantly, especially if they are in a familiar area or if the visibility is quite good. When not echolocating, dolphins rely on their extremely sensitive hearing for information about their environment, including sounds made by other dolphins. Often dolphins catch prey by listening for it rather than with echolocation. The sound emitted by a dolphin when echolocating may give away their presence.
Dolphins can control the loudness of their echolocation clicks, adjusting this based on their surroundings and how far they want the clicks to travel.
The concern that dolphins living in aquariums with concrete walls may be harmed by the sounds of their echolocation bouncing off the walls is completely unfounded Au et al. Burst pulse sounds are a general classification given to such sounds as barks, mews, chirps, and pops. Dolphins apparently make these sounds only under emotional duress, when they are angry, frightened, upset, or frustrated.
These sounds can be directed towards humans, other dolphins, and inanimate objects. Researchers have thought for a number of years that dolphins could stun or kill fish and squid with sounds they produce, having observed fish in dolphin pools swimming one minute and lying on the bottom the next.
At first, researchers thought that dolphins used echolocation as the stunning sound, since dolphins are capable of echolocating very loudly see below.
Testing revealed that dolphins trained to echolocate powerfully at fish and squid did not stun them, so researchers began looking elsewhere for the stunning sound. In recent years, noise pollution has become a serious issue affecting marine mammals. Man-made noise arises from a variety of sources such as oil drilling, sonar testing, explosives, and seismic surveys.
However the majority of man-made sound in the ocean comes from ships. According to research conducted by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, noise levels in were 10 to 12 decibels higher than in The main cause of this is increased global shipping trade. According to John Hildebrand of Scripps, the noise is more powerful by a factor of This noise increase is due to more and noisier ships. There is mounting evidence to suggest that sonar has indeed caused adverse affects on marine mammals.
Sound deployed with such intensity may even be severe enough to cause stranding and death. The Navy itself has voiced concern about the affects of sonar and has begun funding research to study the affects of man-made noise on marine mammals. The diagram below illustrates the frequency range of some man-made sounds to the frequency range of sounds made by different marine mammals. From this you can see where they overlap and interfere.
Chart courtesy of Dr. Currently there have not been enough scientific studies conducted to understand the impact of any type of man-made sound on marine mammals to determine what is detrimental to their survival. Continued scientific study is desperately needed to investigate this issue in order to maintain the safety and protection of marine mammals and their environment. Until we have a better understanding of the affects of man-made sound on the marine environment and its inhabitants, noise pollution, regardless of the source should be limited and avoided in areas that marine mammals frequent.
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