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Even in loud settings with tons of different noises, we seem to have a knack for focusing in on the most important sounds, particularly sounds of danger. If we’re anything like bats, it’s because our ...

Bats using sound to find their way in the dark boom louder than home fire alarms and rock concerts, according to new measurements. Fortunately all that noise stays at frequencies too high for human ...

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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Using algorithms developed for human speech recognition, researchers decoded which bats in an experimental colony were arguing with each other, and what they were arguing about. Christopher Intagliata ...

Read more: “Crittervision: The world as animals see (and sniff) it“ A bat would probably have no trouble imagining how it is to see like a human: some species have eyesight that is ...

One of the keys to the keen ability of bats to process sound is that the neurons in a bat’s brain work as a team to convey the importance of certain signals like an anger call or a distress call while ...

The speed and fidelity at which bats echolocate stumped scientists for a long time. It wasn't until 2007 that they found the answer lurking in bats' nervous systems. Seth Horowitz says it could hold ...