Bats, often misunderstood creatures of the night, play a vital role in our ecosystems. Contrary to popular belief, bats are ...

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 ...

How Echolocation Works: The Science Behind the Sound The science of echolocation is nothing short of a marvel. Bats emit ultrasonic calls, usually beyond the range of human hearing, through their ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

Bat sounds are more for navigation and are not as distinctive. We can identify the frequencies of their feeding buzzes and make educated identifications based on the breadth of frequency.

What complicates bat sounds is that the animals need to use their voice for two radically different purposes: echolocation and communication. Echolocation used to navigate and identify prey relies ...

Erin Gillam is a biologist who uses bat sounds to control insect pests on farms.

Bats were found to possess impressive long-term memories in a study conducted by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution researchers.

To navigate, echolocating bats use a local and directed beam of sound. However, this echolocation is short-ranged and highly directional and can best detect large objects within only a few dozen feet.