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. Cane toad’s rattling trill call. The bat briefly ...

Bats have a clever way of moving around in the dark called echolocation, which is a bit like “seeing with sound.” Instead of ...

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 ...

Researcher May Dixon discovered that frog-eating bats could recognize ringtones indicating a food reward up to four years later Vanessa Crooks Researchers used speakers to play ringtones to the bats ...

Tropical bats learn to “eavesdrop” on their prey over time to help distinguish between tasty and toxic frogs, a new analysis suggests. The study looked at fringe-lipped bats that range from Panama to ...