Bats navigate chaos in complete darkness by listening to shifting echoes, adjusting speed instantly without tracking every ...

Bats are some of the most misunderstood mammals on the planet. While some do drink blood, the vast majority enjoy a diet of ...

Some bats sing or call just as birds and humans do. But how they learn their calls and melodies is a mystery—one that scientists will try to solve by sequencing the genomes of more than 1,000 bat ...

What do bats, dolphins, shrews, and whales have in common? Echolocation! Echolocation is the ability to use sound to navigate. Many animals, and even some humans, are able to use sounds in order to ...

Bats live in a world of sounds. They use vocalizations both to communicate with their conspecifics and for navigation. For the latter, they emit sounds in the ultrasonic range, which echo and enable ...

Many of us might struggle to see a moose on a moonless night, let alone a mosquito. But some bats have a nifty trick — they use their ears to locate their bug prey. It's not that bats can't see — many ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

Bats using sound to find their way in the dark boom louder than home fire alarms and rock concerts, according to new measurements. Fortunately all that noise stays at frequencies too high for human ...