From eavesdropping to echolocation tricks, science is giving us an inside look into how various bat species weaponize sound ...

Bats are ecologically important, responsible for pest control, pollination and seed dispersal. They use echolocation to "see," emitting ultrasonic sound waves that bounce back off objects and give ...

Many species of bats use echolocation to avoid obstacles like tree branches and hunt small insects as they fly through the dark. But it turns out echolocation for bats is much more than just a ...

Bats are nocturnal hunters and use echolocation to orient themselves by emitting high-frequency ultrasonic sounds in rapid succession and evaluating the calls' reflections. Yet, they have retained a ...

For a bat to be at the top of its game for echolocation, it needs a good head on its shoulders. Not all bats, though, are the same when it comes to sensing their surroundings in total darkness — some ...

Bats, as the main predator of night-flying insects, create a selective pressure that has led many of their prey to evolve an early warning system of sorts: ears uniquely tuned to high-frequency bat ...

A thirsty bat sweeps over a pond, listens to the echoes returning from its surface and drops closer to drink. But what happens when that same acoustic signal comes from something that only looks like ...

Inspired by bats’ use of echolocation, researchers have developed smart glasses that transform visual information into unique sound representations that enhance the ability of blind and ...

New research reveals that mixed wild- and captive-populations of the greater Japanese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus nippon) display frequency convergence behaviors in a major echolocation frequency, ...