When it comes to making sounds, size matters, at least to some bats. An oversized facial structure called a sella may help the Bourret’s horseshoe bat focus its sonar signals into a narrow beam, ...

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 ...

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A researcher holds a pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) in El Cañon de Guadalupe in Baja California, Mexico. (Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez / UCL/University of Cambridge) If you’re looking for bats, ...

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It’s not easy being deaf in the dark—especially when your greatest enemy is a master of sound. Such is the twilight plight of the humble cabbage tree emperor moth (Bunaea alcinoe): It’s all these ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To navigate, echolocating bats use a local and directed beam of sound. However, this echolocation is short-ranged and highly ...