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, ...

Most bat calls are inaudible to the human ear, but ecologist Kent McFarland used software to lower the frequencies of calls from little brown and long-eared bats into a human-friendly range for the ...

Bats might not have the iconic howl of the gray wolf or the movie-famous screech of a red-tailed hawk, but the calls they do make through echolocation generate diverse and unique sounds. Now, ...

If you’ve ever caught yourself picking up a friend’s accent or slang, you already understand a little bit about vampire bats. A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...

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), ...

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 ...