Bats are well known for their ability to “see” with sound, using echolocation to find food and their roosts. Some bats may also conceive a map made of sounds from their home range. This map can help ...

New Delhi: Bats are known to be blind and travel using echolocation, a technique to determine the location of different objects using sound waves. But scientists have been confused for long about how ...

Human echolocation refers to the remarkable ability of some individuals to utilise self-generated sounds – typically mouth clicks – and interpret the returning echoes to derive detailed spatial ...

Bats are nocturnal hunters and use echolocation to orientate themselves by emitting high-frequency ultrasonic sounds in rapid succession and evaluating the calls’ reflections. Yet, they have retained ...

Every night, bats emerge out of roosts in massive numbers, creating what scientists have called a 'cocktail party nightmare' of clashing echolocations. Nobody knew how bats managed this severe ...