Far beyond the typical bat’s ability to navigate darkness through echolocation, this species employs multiple ... initially mistook the specimens for the common Whiskered Bat (Myotis mystacinus).

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term ...

The love songs of these Panamanian frogs is a dinner bell for fringe-lipped bats. But how do they learn which frogs and toads ...

The first bat-wearable microphone is helping biologists study the bats’ good safety record at avoiding collisions in rush hour air. On summer evenings, in around a minute, some 2,000 greater ...

For her PhD research, bat biologist Kadambari Deshpande made overnight recordings of bat echolocation calls in the Western Ghats. A “good night” would generate about 30 GB of data from 11 ...

For bats, this is reality every single night. Their secret? An evolutionary marvel that seems almost like science fiction: biological radar, known as echolocation. On International Bat ...

Bats navigate using echolocation, which entails emitting a high-frequency sound and then using the bounce-back of the sound waves to gather information about objects in the environment.

You may not be familiar with the name, but Griffin was one of the discoverers of bat echolocation while still an undergraduate at Harvard. Griffin met strong opposition from scientists who ...

Many bats locate their prey in total darkness by echolocation -- producing ultra-high pitched calls and listening to the reflections, or echoes off objects in their environment. D:I thought this ...