Bats navigate chaos in complete darkness by listening to shifting echoes, adjusting speed instantly without tracking every ...

Bats are some of the most misunderstood mammals on the planet. While some do drink blood, the vast majority enjoy a diet of ...

What do bats, dolphins, shrews, and whales have in common? Echolocation! Echolocation is the ability to use sound to navigate. Many animals, and even some humans, are able to use sounds in order to ...

New research shows that just like humans, vampire bats with deep social relationships use similar sounds as one another to communicate ...

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 ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...