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 ...

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Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Bats are well known for their ability to “see” with sound, using ...

It’s now well-established that bats can develop a mental picture of their environment using echolocation. But we’re still figuring out what that means—how bats take the echoes of their own ...

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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, ...

NPR's Christopher Joyce and audio engineer Bill McQuay travel to an abandoned copper mine in search of bats — and their sound. Extreme horror, of course, but what would Halloween be without bats? NPR ...