Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly sophisticated behavior that requires precise, split-second decision making on ...

Outside an abandoned mine in British Columbia, Canada, the sounds of love are in the air—though you’ll need to tap into ultrasound to enjoy them. Bats are famous for producing sounds that help them ...

A guide to non-bat sounds recorded during bat surveys. This book enables the reader to be confident in recognising, categorising and dismissing not-bat sounds and offers knock-on benefits for ...

The range of human hearing goes up to about 20 kilohertz, which is fine for our purposes, but is pretty poor compared to plenty of other animal species. Dogs famously can hear up to about 60 kHz, and ...

Master naturalists Mary Beth Lampe (from left), Karen Harden and Tina Olivas walk through the Fort Worth Botanic Garden before placing an ultrasonic microphone to pick up different species of bats, ...