Bats navigate cluttered environments by interpreting patterns in echo changes—known as acoustic flow velocity—rather than analyzing individual echoes. Experiments show bats adjust their speed based on ...

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A long-standing mystery about how wild bats navigate complex environments in complete darkness with remarkable precision, has been solved in a new University of Bristol-led study. The findings are ...

Bats are some of the most highly specialized mammals to have ever evolved. This includes not only the evolution of active ...

A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they ...

But a new study sheds light on this question. It reveals that bats don’t just listen to echoes the way we once thought, but also use something called acoustic flow velocity to judge their speed and ...