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 ...

Karen Hopkin: Bats rely on echolocation to navigate the night skies and to chase down and capture even erratically moving prey. But even more impressive than their aerial acrobatics are the mental ...

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 ...

Most bats navigate their world through echolocation, a way of emitting distinct sounds and then listening for the returning echo. Echolocation helps bats orient themselves, forage for food, and avoid ...

Sept. 9 (UPI) --The uniquely shaped wingtips of some silk moths reflect sound waves, helping the insects avoid the jaws of hungry bats. Bats are nocturnal hunters, and though they can see pretty well ...

Two major groups of bats that use echolocation have different structures for connecting the inner ear to the brain, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Chicago, the American ...