Bats master the dark with sound. WPI engineers hope their drones do the same in dangerous situations

Bats fly through total darkness without hitting anything by using sound. WPI researchers are building drones to do the same ...
Los Angeles Times

Holy bat sounds! Unusual library will help scientists track bat species

A researcher holds a pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) in El Cañon de Guadalupe in Baja California, Mexico. (Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez / UCL/University of Cambridge) If you’re looking for bats, ...
Colorado Public Radio

Wild Sounds Of The West: ‘Bats Are The Denizens Of The Dark’

Cluster of hibernating healthy Virginia big-eared bats in Pendleton County, WV Bats are an animal that's really hard to get to know. It doesn't help that they only come out at night. Listen above to ...
Ars Technica

Researchers raise bats in helium-rich air to check how they sense sound

It’s now well-established that bats can develop a mental picture of their environment using echolocation. But we’re still figuring out what that means—how bats take the echoes of their own ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Bats use different inner ear structures to help navigate the world through sound

Two major groups of bats that use echolocation have different structures for connecting the inner ear to the brain, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Chicago, the American ...