Bats are some of the most highly specialized mammals to have ever evolved. This includes not only the evolution of active flight, but also their echolocation. This ability requires the bats to produce ...

Biologists attached tiny recording devices that looked like mini backpacks to bats. What they found revealed a surprising ...

Learn how echolocation has shaped the skulls of bats that emit high-frequency sounds through their mouths and noses.

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 ...

High-frequency ultrasound significantly reduces the size of the face and modifies the internal bones of the ear in bats.

Listening for faint rustling noises made by tasty beetles on a quiet day is simple for bats hunting with their exquisitely sensitive hearing. So try imagining what it must be like trying to locate ...

An Israeli researcher who studied bats for nearly two decades is trying to improve the way robots communicate with one another. Yossi Yovel, who heads the Bat Lab for Neuro-Econology at Tel Aviv ...

Leaf-nosed bats can locate even small prey with echolocation by exploiting an “acoustic mirror” effect, according to a recent paper in Current Biology. If the bat approaches an insect on a leaf from ...

A new Tel Aviv University study has revealed, for the first time, that bats know the speed of sound from birth. In order to prove this, the researchers raised bats from the time of their birth in a ...