A ccording to a new study, we may have been thinking about dolphins’ echolocation all wrong. Rather than using it to “see” ...

Oh no! You dropped your keys on the ground, and it is too dark to see them. You might have to feel the ground with your hands, but a mouse could use ...

Bats exhibit remarkable sensory adaptations that enable them to navigate, forage and communicate in complex and cluttered environments. At the heart of their extraordinary capabilities lies ...

Scientific Reports (2020). [3] High frequency social calls indicate food source defense in foraging Common pipistrelle bats. Scientific Reports (2020). [4] The origins and diversity of bat songs.

Learning to eavesdrop The new study does not rule out the idea that the mothers of the young bats teach them about frog calls. And a 2022 study found that bats learn navigation from their mothers.

Researchers have discovered two new viruses in bats that are closely related to the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses—pathogens ...

For bats it is the time to rest in some secluded shelter, hang head down, groom, sleep, and perhaps even quarrel. When night approaches, bat activity increases; they fly about inside their cave then ...

Seasonal suitability maps for Aedes aegypti eggs in 200 m resolution covering the urbanized area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for 2019. Credit: The Lancet Planetary Health (2025). DOI: 10.1016/S2542 ...

When you think of echolocation, you probably think of bats or dolphins. But echolocation has also been used as a way for blind people to navigate, too. Despite the skill’s usefulness, few blind ...

The simple bat detector uses frequency division to lower the bat’s chirping to a frequency we can hear. For example, if a bat is calling at 91kHz the system will divide it by 16 and put out 5.7kHz.