Like so many mini submarines equipped with sonar, they deftly navigate dark forests and caves by listening for the echoes of ...
Bats live in a world of sounds. They use vocalizations both to communicate with their conspecifics and for navigation. For the latter, they emit sounds in the ultrasonic range, which echo and enable ...
When fringe-lipped bats learn the sound of a dinner bell, they remember it for years. The bats’ enduring memory is comparable to that of other animals renowned for their expansive cognitive skills, ...
Brown long-eared bats have some of the most sensitive hearing of any mammal. This helps them both hunt and avoid being hunted ...
Bats live in a world of sounds. They use vocalizations both to communicate with their conspecifics and for navigation. For the latter, they emit sounds in the ultrasonic range, which echo and enable ...
New research shows that just like humans, vampire bats with deep social relationships use similar sounds as one another to communicate ...
Bats can learn to mimic specific sounds, which puts them into an elite group of animals capable of this. Studying how bats can copy noises could help us learn more about humans’ unique capacity for ...
Listening to bat chitchat tells us a lot about their highly nuanced vocal communication Bats are fascinating animals. It's estimated there are at least around 900-1200 species of these amazing mammals ...