Bats are nocturnal predators, and echolocation is their secret weapon. When hunting, a bat emits rapid-fire bursts of sound, called feeding buzzes, as it closes in on its prey.

Bats are well known for their ability to “see” with sound, using echolocation to find food and their roosts. Some bats may also conceive a map made of sounds from their home range. This map ...

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, ...

Humans can only hear a maximum of about 20 kHz, so most bat sounds are ultrasonic, meaning humans cannot hear them. It’s a good thing that humans are not able to hear most bat calls because the sound ...

Most of us don't like to hear bumps in the night. We're diurnal creatures; that is, we are most active during the day. We share our daytime with many other animals, such as squirrels and birds and ...

Bats’ sounds are also similar to those of throat singers. Throat singing is an ancient tradition practiced by the people of Tuva, a small republic in southern Siberia.

The crafty bats quickly learned to which speaker would offer a treat, and not respond to the others. They were then given microchips and then released into the wild.

Tiger beetles generate "anti bat-sonar" to prevent echolocating bats from eating them, scientists say. An experiment suggests the beetles mimic sounds created by poisonous insects that bats avoid.

Low-frequency sounds travel further than high-frequency sounds, but high-frequency sound gives more detailed echoes, so bats generally use higher frequencies when tracking down food. Most bat ...