Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To navigate, echolocating bats use a local and directed beam of sound. However, this echolocation is short-ranged and highly ...

Learn how echolocation has shaped the skulls of bats that emit high-frequency sounds through their mouths and noses.

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 ...

Biologists attached tiny recording devices that looked like mini backpacks to bats. What they found revealed a surprising ...

It’s now well-established that bats can develop a mental picture of their environment using echolocation. But we’re still figuring out what that means—how bats take the echoes of their own ...

Listening for faint rustling noises made by tasty beetles on a quiet day is simple for bats hunting with their exquisitely sensitive hearing. So try imagining what it must be like trying to locate ...

Leaf-nosed bats can locate even small prey with echolocation by exploiting an “acoustic mirror” effect, according to a recent paper in Current Biology. If the bat approaches an insect on a leaf from ...

An Israeli researcher who studied bats for nearly two decades is trying to improve the way robots communicate with one another. Yossi Yovel, who heads the Bat Lab for Neuro-Econology at Tel Aviv ...