As darkness falls, a greater Japanese horseshoe bat gets ready to head out for the night's hunt. As it takes flight, it uses its refined hearing to zero in on a target in the noisy forest. The ...

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A new Tel Aviv University study has revealed, for the first time, that bats know the speed of sound from birth. In order to prove this, the researchers raised bats from the time of their birth in a ...

Karen Hopkin: Bats rely on echolocation to navigate the night skies and to chase down and capture even erratically moving prey. But even more impressive than their aerial acrobatics are the mental ...

Bats mimic the buzzing sound of stinging insects to scare off predatory owls. This type of acoustic trickery, when a harmless animal mimics a dangerous one, has been found previously in some insects ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To navigate, echolocating bats use a local and directed beam of sound. However, this echolocation is short-ranged and highly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Largest Bats: Greater Horseshoe Bat© Carl Allen/Shutterstock.com The post Bats Don’t Just Hear Sound — They Actively Reshape It to ...