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, which echo and enable ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Bats are well known for their ability to “see” with sound, using ...

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 ...

How do bats avoid colliding with objects while flying? Scientists, using tiny microphones on bats' heads, found that bats tweak the frequencies of the sounds they emit to detect and maneuver around ...

A new Tel Aviv University study has revealed, for the first time, that bats know the speed of sound from birth. In order to prove this, the researchers raised bats from the time of their birth in a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Under the darkness of night, bats use soundwaves to find moths to ...

When it comes to making sounds, size matters, at least to some bats. An oversized facial structure called a sella may help the Bourret’s horseshoe bat focus its sonar signals into a narrow beam, ...

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.