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Using sound to hunt for food is a pretty ingenious adaptation for bats flying at night. But it doesn’t work if another bat is messing with you. Scientists have discovered that a species of bats can ...

Scientists have known for years that bats navigate by sonar. Like destroyers hunting down a submarine, they send out pulses of sound and steer by the echoes that bounce back from obstacles or prey. In ...

A bat leaving its roost at dusk emits ultrasound pulses at frequencies between 20 and 200 kilohertz, well above the ceiling of human hearing, which tops out around 20 kHz. Each pulse lasts between 0.2 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Northern right whale dolphins swim just under the surface near British Columbia, Canada. Echolocation is a logical strategy in the ...

Bats are relentless aerial hunters, using sonar so precise they can lock onto prey within 3 degrees of its exact position.

The observed nature in Green-Wood Cemetery ranges from hefty slunking woodchucks to blue herons wading in the koi ponds, and, ...