Bats exhibit remarkable sensory adaptations that enable them to navigate, forage and communicate in complex and cluttered environments. At the heart of their extraordinary capabilities lies ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

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 ...

A long-standing mystery about how wild bats navigate complex environments in complete darkness with remarkable precision, has ...

P. kuhlii above a spectrogram of its echolocation sequence. Source: Eran Amichai, used with permission. Many bats navigate using echolocation—emitting high-frequency sound pulses and analyzing the ...

Bat vocal communication encompasses a diverse array of acoustic signals ranging from echolocation pulses that facilitate spatial mapping to complex social calls used in foraging, mating, and ...

Researchers made a robot bat that demonstrates how real bats use echolocation to find prey at night, contributing to the fields of biology, engineering, and robotics.

Bats are often described as unusually powerful for their size, but their advantages come with significant trade-offs. This ...

Jan Zwilling Wissenschaftskommunikation Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (IZW) im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. Bats are nocturnal hunters and use echolocation to orientate themselves ...

Bats are fascinating creatures and are the only true flying mammals. There are over 1,500 species worldwide, so they account for around 20 percent of all mammals! You will find them almost everywhere ...

Echo location is the act of perceiving the position of surrounding objects using sound reflections, and is especially known as a creature that uses echo location for dolphins and bats. Such ...

Dispelling myths, bats are vital for ecological balance, controlling pests, pollinating plants, and spreading seeds. These diverse mammals, the only true flying ones, offer valuable guano as natural ...