Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience mapped the brain regions controlling movements in Egyptian fruit bats. Large regions of motor cortex are dedicated to the tongue, which makes sonar ...

High-speed recordings of Egyptian fruit bats in flight show that instead of using a primitive form of echolocation, these animals actually use a technique recently developed by humans for surveillance ...

A little over a decade ago, prestin was found to be a key gene responsible for hearing in mammals. A new study has shown that prestin has also independently evolved to play a critical role in the ...

In case you didn’t already think that bats’ ability to navigate with their ears instead of their eyes was cool enough, get this: Mexican free-tailed bats can actually use biological sonar to jam the ...

Bats and dolphins aren't the only animals that use sound to locate objects. Humans do it, too. New research, which appears in a recent issue of the journal Acta Acustica united with Acustica, provides ...

Researchers from Japan have found that horseshoe bats exhibit rapid changes in vocalizations and behavior primarily in response to Doppler shifts. Unlike most animals that rely on visual senses, bats ...

Question: How does sonar work? Answer: The word “SONAR” stands for SOund Navigation And Ranging. For both humans and animals, it is a way to understand what’s around you using sound instead of sight.

Bats exhibit remarkable sensory adaptations that enable them to navigate, forage and communicate in complex and cluttered environments. At the heart of their extraordinary capabilities lies ...

What's really important to the bats, the study suggests, is an echo parameter called sonar aperture — the spread of angles from which echoes impinge on the bats' ears, with a larger spread indicating ...

In the meta of evolution, bats break all the rules. With flight, sonar, and intelligence, they’ve achieved a combination no ...

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New research from the University of Washington suggests that the Egyptian fruit bat is using similar techniques to those preferred by modern-day military and civil surveillance. The results could ...