Convergent evolution has resulted in some amazing biological abilities appearing multiple times in unrelated animal lineages, and echolocation is a great example of this. Bats and whales are the most famous examples, but echolocation has also evolved on many more occasions!

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Sources:
Bats:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...
https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...
https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/...
https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/items...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://link.springer.com/article/10....
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/a...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...

Cetaceans:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/11/...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10....
https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...

Tenrecs:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/986137
https://link.springer.com/article/10....
https://www.ecoevoblog.com/2014/03/28...

Shrews:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...

Solenodons:
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/h...
https://academic.oup.com/mspecies/art...

Hedgehogs:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...
https://www.wildlifeonline.me.uk/anim...

Rodents:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

Primates:
https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_e...

Birds:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2388791?...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...
https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Hyopsodus:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...

Echolocation defences:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495006?...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_...

0:00 - Introduction
1:44 - Bats
11:20 - Whales
17:23 - Tenrecs
18:43 - Shrews
19:40 - Solenodons
20:23 - Hedgehogs?
20:55 - Rodents
21:49 - Primates
25:03 - Birds
27:21 - Extinct Examples
29:02 - Echolocation Defences
30:49 - Outro