Echolocation lets animals use sound as a guide in places where vision fails. They send out clicks, chirps, or taps and interpret the returning echoes to find prey, avoid danger, or move confidently in ...

Humans experience only a tiny slice of reality—but many animals perceive far more. From echolocation and heat vision to sensing electricity, magnetic fields, and vibrations through the ground, animals ...

Toothed whales – like dolphins and belugas – might live in the ocean, but they have some big things in common with cave-dwelling bats. They’re all mammals that live in dark places and use echolocation ...

Brown long-eared bats have some of the most sensitive hearing of any mammal. This helps them both hunt and avoid being hunted ...

When researchers from the University of British Columbia set out to film the solitary hunting habits of Northern resident ...

Bats live in a world of sounds. They use vocalizations both to communicate with their conspecifics and for navigation. For the latter, they emit sounds in the ultrasonic range, which echo and enable ...

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 ...

Even during such routine tasks as a daily stroll, our brain sometimes needs to shift gears, switching from navigating the city to jumping out of the way of a bike or to crossing the street to greet a ...

It may seem remarkable, but significant evidence shows that humans could learn this sound-based “superpower” with some practice.