As darkness falls and the air begins to cool, thousands of bats burst from the narrow mouth of their cave. The sky comes ...

By Mongabay.com Studying insect-eating bats isn’t easy: they’re tiny, fly at night, and navigate using ultrasonic frequencies far above human hearing range. But experts in India have come up with a ...

As thousands of bats launch nightly hunting, the cacophony of a dense crowd should stymie echolocation, a so-called “cocktail party nightmare.” ...

Many bats perceive their world mostly through echolocation: they emit a call and listen for the reflected echo, which in turn ...

Whenever a bat flies by, the detector’s microphone picks up the high-frequency sounds the mammals use to navigate and find food. The device then displays the calls as graphs on the detector’s ...