Next, the researchers wanted to test how barn owls (Tyto alba) would react to the bats’ buzzing noises. Through a speaker, the researchers played recordings of the honey bee, hornet, and mouse-eared ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

If you're trying to figure out if bats have moved into your attic, some dead giveaways to look out for include persistent ...

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 ...

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