As darkness falls, a greater Japanese horseshoe bat gets ready to head out for the night’s hunt. As it takes flight, it uses ...

Blind as a bat? Hardly. All bats can see to some degree, and certain species possess prominent eyes and a keen sense of vision. Take the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). This species is ...

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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 ...

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

(CN) — Bats might not lead the most exciting lives, but they do have one real-life superpower that aids in their evening hunts for insect dinners: echolocation. In a new study published by the ...

The bats in the first group could fly with all their senses at their disposal. The second group was blindfolded; the third was deprived of sight and smell; and the fourth had to fly without sight, ...

A new study has shown how Japanese horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus nippon) handle noisy environments ...

Neuroscientists have discovered a feedback loop that modulates the receptivity of the auditory cortex to incoming acoustic signals when bats emit echolocation calls. The researchers show that ...