The Role of Dolphins in Pregnancy

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humans here up to 20 kilohertz and dolphins can make sounds up to like 140, 150 so just stuff that's way outside of our range. The clicks work so that the lower ones just like us travel further but higher frequency clicks give them more detailed information. If a dolphin is used to echolocating on a regular non-pregnant person and it doesn't have a weird sack of bones in the front of the stomach they're like what is this?

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