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 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 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.

Scientist Profile: Bat Biologist. Clip | 1m 58s. Erin Gillam is a biologist who uses bat sounds to control insect pests on farms. Aired 10/29/2014 | Rating TV-Y ...

[Roland Meertens] has a bat detector, or rather, he has a device that can record ultrasound – the type of sound that bats use to echolocate. What he wants is a bat detector.

Bat vocal cords can produce a biological sonar with the help of a thin membrane, the researchers found, and the folds above their cords create the much lower-frequency sounds.

Bats have an ability to learn and retain information that is crucial to their way of life, Panama-based Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution (STRI) researchers discovered in a new report. The ...