A researcher holds a pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) in El Cañon de Guadalupe in Baja California, Mexico. (Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez / UCL/University of Cambridge) If you’re looking for bats, ...
In an effort to identify and save rare species, an international team of scientists has compiled the world’s biggest library of bat sounds. Led by researchers from the University College London (UCL), ...
Bats navigate chaos in complete darkness by listening to shifting echoes, adjusting speed instantly without tracking every ...
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 ...
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 are some of the most misunderstood mammals on the planet. While some do drink blood, the vast majority enjoy a diet of ...
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 ...