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

A new study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute used a robot to mimic common big-eared bats' echolocation skills ...

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

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 ...

Flying bats do not travel through silence. Every call they make comes back layered with sound from leaves, branches, trunks, ...

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 ...