According to past experiments, big-eared bats use leaves as acoustic mirrors to hunt silent insects. The theory stated that ...

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

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

Bats, nature’s original night-flyers, have a hidden navigation skill that outperforms even the most advanced human sensors. A ...

Scientists have finally cracked the code on how bats fly through dense forests without crashing. This discovery of sound flow ...

Why do researchers think big-eared bats can find hidden insects without having to scrutinize every leaf in a forest?Their ...

A recent study led by the University of Bristol has solved a long-standing mystery, explaining how wild bats navigate in ...

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 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 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 ...

Bats possess remarkable sensory abilities, utilizing echolocation with incredible precision to map their surroundings and detect object properties. Beyond sound, their specialized vision extends into ...

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 ...