A team of animal behaviorists at the Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science's, Museum für Naturkunde, and Wageningen University and Research has found an association between ...

Bats live in a world of sounds. They use vocalizations both to communicate with their conspecifics and for navigation. For ...

To locate and catch prey, insectivorous bats use an acoustic orientation called echolocation. They emit a series of supersonic cries through the mouth or nose and detect flying insects by the echoes ...

Brown University researchers discovered how the echoes from bats' sounds can overlap, which can cause confusion about the location of objects in their path. The blurring of sounds and echoes can ...

the same bats also showed more curiosity when shown a rubber ball and they tended to be more likely to sound an alert if they deemed one necessary. The researchers also found that the bats most ...