Whale researcher Yang Hung-chia says that the "ancestral home" of this activity is probably a research institute affiliated with an oceanarium in Florida, in the US. That facility was established in 1938, and it was there that, in 1947, it was first discovered that dolphins have sonar.
研究鯨類分類的楊鴻嘉說，這一行的「祖師爺」，應該是於一九三八年成立、一九四七年首次發現海豚具有聲納的美國佛羅里達海洋水族館附屬研究所。