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 ...

Bats are dependent upon echolocation to catch their insect prey. But competition for resources is fierce among bats, so they’ve evolved the capacity to “jam” the signals of other bats to send them off ...

Bats are unique mammals, the only group capable of powered flight. They are also extremely diverse, with about 1,440 species that make up more than 20% of all known mammal species. Most bats navigate ...