Bats are ecologically important, responsible for pest control, pollination and seed dispersal. They use echolocation to "see," emitting ultrasonic sound waves that bounce back off objects and give ...

P. kuhlii above a spectrogram of its echolocation sequence. Source: Eran Amichai, used with permission. Many bats navigate using echolocation—emitting high-frequency sound pulses and analyzing the ...

How did bats go from mysterious early mammals to the only mammals capable of powered flight? A landmark study has now traced much of that story back about 65 million years, suggesting that bats first ...

However, some bat species, such as the greater Japanese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus nippon), use unique pulses that include both FM and constant-frequency (CF) components. The bats detect and identify ...