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 ...

Researchers Demonstrate the First Plausible Mechanism for the Acoustic Mirroring Effect in Tropical Bats Scientists built a ...

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Long-term memory allows not only people to acquire skills that rarely have to be relearned, such as riding a bicycle, but certain bats may also have that capacity. Biologist M. May Dixon of the ...

A group of micromoths has evolved the ability to produce a clicking sound with its wings to ward off insect-eating bats, its main predator. But because these moths are deaf, and therefore cannot ...

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 ...