Imagine searching for a gemstone in a dark cave: You use a flashlight, looking for a rainbow-colored glint in the darkness.

Sound plays an important role for many animals, helping them navigate and hunt. Echolocation is the ability of animals like bats and dolphins to locate objects by emitting sound waves and interpreting ...

A group of bats hanging from wooden rafters of a home - Lillitve/Getty Images Nothing can set your pulse racing like mysterious noises coming from somewhere in your home's rafters. Nothing, that is, ...

Bats mimic the buzzing sound of stinging insects to scare off predatory owls. This type of acoustic trickery, when a harmless animal mimics a dangerous one, has been found previously in some insects ...

Some bats can imitate the sound of buzzing hornets to scare off owls, researchers say. The discovery is the first documented case of a mammal mimicking an insect to deter predators. Many animals copy ...

I wonder about the frequencies involved: the frequencies the bats use for echolocation (often/usually above 20kHz) and how much noise humans make but don't hear in the same range of frequencies.

New research has unearthed new insights on the disruptive and detrimental effects that human produced electromagnetic noise can have on the ability of bats to migrate effectively. The study, published ...