Bats Don’t Just Hear Sound — They Actively Reshape It to Hunt

As darkness falls, a greater Japanese horseshoe bat gets ready to head out for the night’s hunt. As it takes flight, it uses ...
Vail Daily

Curious Nature: Seeing with sound — how ultrasonic power works

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 ...
Science Daily

Neurobiology: How bats distinguish different sounds

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 ...
Newsweek

Crafty Wild Bats Can Remember Sounds for Years: Scientists

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Bats create 'silent frequency zones' to detect prey in noisy flight, researchers reveal

Sound plays an important role for many animals, helping them navigate and hunt. Echolocation is the ability of animals like ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Bats use different inner ear structures to help navigate the world through sound

Two major groups of bats that use echolocation have different structures for connecting the inner ear to the brain, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Chicago, the American ...