Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To navigate, echolocating bats use a local and directed beam of sound. However, this echolocation is short-ranged and highly ...

Tiger beetles generate "anti bat-sonar" to prevent echolocating bats from eating them, scientists say. An experiment suggests the beetles mimic sounds created by poisonous insects that bats avoid.

Ever suddenly realize you had picked up certain words or ways of speaking from a close friend? Maybe they spoke to you in a certain drawl or twang, or used slang like “y’all” or “yinz,” and you ...

Bats live in a world of sounds. They use vocalizations both to communicate with their conspecifics and for navigation. For the latter, they emit sounds in the ultrasonic range, which echo and enable ...

Many animals produce sound to communicate with each other, and bats are no exception. But bats are extreme when it comes to sound production. Bats can produce a range of frequencies, also known as the ...

Seba's short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) lives in the subtropical and tropical forests of Central and South America, where it mostly feeds on pepper fruit. The animals spend their days in ...