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Sound plays an important role for many animals, helping them navigate and hunt. Echolocation is the ability of animals like bats and dolphins to locate objects by emitting sound waves and interpreting ...

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Bats are nocturnal hunters and use echolocation to orient themselves by emitting high-frequency ultrasonic sounds in rapid succession and evaluating the calls' reflections. Yet, they have retained a ...

As darkness falls, a greater Japanese horseshoe bat gets ready to head out for the night’s hunt. As it takes flight, it uses its refined hearing to zero in on a target in the noisy forest. The ...