For a bat to be at the top of its game for echolocation, it needs a good head on its shoulders. Not all bats, though, are the same when it comes to sensing their surroundings in total darkness — some ...

Bats are ecologically important, responsible for pest control, pollination and seed dispersal. They use echolocation to "see," emitting ultrasonic sound waves that bounce back off objects and give ...

Bats are famously agile in the air, but what happens when one ends up in the water? The answer involves a swimming technique ...

Many bat species emit echolocation calls and use the returning echoes to find their way, detect the presence of fluttering insects, and locate and catch them. A new study investigated this behavior in ...

Bats are nocturnal hunters and use echolocation to orientate themselves by emitting high-frequency ultrasonic sounds in rapid succession and evaluating the calls’ reflections. Yet, they have retained ...

Bats can locate their prey using echolocation without confusion even when immersed in a thick swarm of many hundreds of other bats, and now researchers have discovered the secret. The winged mammals ...

However, some bat species, such as the greater Japanese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus nippon), use unique pulses that include both FM and constant-frequency (CF) components. The bats detect and identify ...