Some bats sing or call just as birds and humans do. But how they learn their calls and melodies is a mystery—one that scientists will try to solve by sequencing the genomes of more than 1,000 bat ...

19 November 2016 The article has been clarified to reflect that not all bats that make vocal sounds sing. Project to sequence the DNA of more than 1,000 species seeks to reveal how bats learn to ...

What do bats, dolphins, shrews, and whales have in common? Echolocation! Echolocation is the ability to use sound to navigate. Many animals, and even some humans, are able to use sounds in order to ...

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 ...

Some bats buzz like wasps and bees when grasped, and the sound seems to deter predatory owls. The findings reveal what may be the first known case of a mammal mimicking an insect, researchers report ...

Insect-eating bats use echolocation to catch moths, while these night-flying prey have evolved early sonar detection and aerobatic maneuvers to evade bats. They’ve been dueling it out for over 65 ...