They shape their flowers to catch a bat’s ear. The von Helversens followed their observation with a broader investigation into flower echoes, using a colony of captive bats at their lab in Erlangen.

A structure that allows sound information to be processed extremely fast has been identified in bats' brains. Researchers were able to analyse the echo-locating animals' neurones as they caught ...

What if we could understand what animals are really saying? At UW, scientists are breaking barriers in animal communication, ...

Bats use echolocation to detect obstacles in flight, find their way into roosts and forage for food. As they fly, they make calls and listen to the returning echoes to build up a sonic map of ...

More about Bat "Radar" A sequel to an earlier article which described the capacity of bats to locate objects by supersonic echoes. This natural sonar is now known to incorporate extraordinary ...

Bats emit high-frequency sound pulses through their nose or mouth and listen to the echo to determine the size, shape, and texture of objects ...