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

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 ...

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

Flying bats do not travel through silence. Every call they make comes back layered with sound from leaves, branches, trunks, ...

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 ...