Bats navigate chaos in complete darkness by listening to shifting echoes, adjusting speed instantly without tracking every ...

Like so many mini submarines equipped with sonar, they deftly navigate dark forests and caves by listening for the echoes of ...

A new study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute used a robot to mimic common big-eared bats' echolocation skills ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

The range of human hearing goes up to about 20 kilohertz, which is fine for our purposes, but is pretty poor compared to plenty of other animal species. Dogs famously can hear up to about 60 kHz, and ...

Bats famously have an ultrasonic navigation system: they use their extremely sensitive hearing to orient themselves by emitting ultrasonic sounds and using the echoes that result to build up a picture ...

Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly ...

Many of us might struggle to see a moose on a moonless night, let alone a mosquito. But some bats have a nifty trick — they use their ears to locate their bug prey. It's not that bats can't see — many ...

(THE CONVERSATION) It is late at night, and we are silently watching a bat in a roost through a night-vision camera. From a nearby speaker comes a long, rattling trill. The bat briefly perks up and ...