Bats navigate cluttered environments by interpreting patterns in echo changes—known as acoustic flow velocity—rather than analyzing individual echoes. Experiments show bats adjust their speed based on ...

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Forget high-tech radar; nature's original night-fliers have been hiding a navigation secret that puts our best sensors to shame. A groundbreaking study from the University of Bristol has finally ...

A long-standing mystery about how wild bats navigate complex environments in complete darkness with remarkable precision, has been solved in a new University of Bristol-led study. The findings are ...

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 ...

But a new study sheds light on this question. It reveals that bats don’t just listen to echoes the way we once thought, but also use something called acoustic flow velocity to judge their speed and ...

We all know that bats are masters of the night, with their high-pitched calls and whisper-quiet wings, weaving through tangled trees and swooping in on insects in total darkness. But exactly how they ...