Echolocation in Bats and Dolphins edited by Jeanette A. Thomas, Cynthia F. Moss and Marianne Vater, University of Chicago Press, £31.50/$45, ISBN 0226795993 Reviewed by Rebecca Shapley
THE hardest thing to imagine is a sense we don’t possess. The editors of Echolocation in Bats and Dolphins have tried to help us out here by assembling a coterie of experts who explore the ways, means and subtleties of how two disparate evolutionary lineages of mammals have adapted sound as a tool to navigate and hunt in three-dimensional space. We humans can shout and tell if a room is empty or full of furniture, but bats can detect…
