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

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 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 are known for their high-frequency calls, which they use to echolocate and catch prey, but they also let out much lower frequency calls for bat-to-bat communication. The structure in a bat’s ...

Eating, mating, sleeping, fighting: Bats have plenty to argue about, and scientists have discovered the nocturnal creatures have a "language" they use to talk to each other, according to a new study.

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

Ever suddenly realize you had picked up certain words or ways of speaking from a close friend? Maybe they spoke to you in a certain drawl or twang, or used slang like “y’all” or “yinz,” and you ...

Bats, with their tiny creepy fingers and nightmare ratlike faces, are notorious for their use of echolocation, high-pitched clicking sounds, to find and catch prey. The flying mammals are also known ...

FRANKFURT. Seba’s short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) lives in the subtropical and tropical forests of Central and South America, where it mostly feeds on pepper fruit. The animals spend their ...