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

Some bats sing or call just as birds and humans do. But how they learn their calls and melodies is a mystery—one that scientists will try to solve by sequencing the genomes of more than 1,000 bat ...

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 ...

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

19 November 2016 The article has been clarified to reflect that not all bats that make vocal sounds sing. Project to sequence the DNA of more than 1,000 species seeks to reveal how bats learn to ...

Many of us might struggle to see a moose on a moonless night, let alone a mosquito. But some bats have a nifty trick — they use their ears to locate their bug prey. It's not that bats can't see — many ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Often small and flying at night, the more than 160 bat species found in the Amazon can be challenging to identify in the field by researchers and ...