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, ...

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 ...

EDINBURGH, Ind.- The Indiana National Guard's Environmental Management Branch staff coordinated, hosted and participated in an acoustic techniques and analysis training delivered by some of the ...

“It sounds a little bit crackly,” Courtney Pegus said, putting his ear to what looked like an oversized walkie talkie. “Turn the volume up,” Fish and Game biologist Karen Blejwas told Pegus, who was ...

Bats use echolocation to see objects in front of them. They emit an ultrasonic pulse around 20 kHz (and up to 100 kHz) and then sense the pulses as they reflect off an object and back to the bat. It’s ...

The presence of the Hawaiian hoary bat on Kahoolawe has been confirmed after more than two decades of speculation and unconfirmed reports of the state’s only native land mammal visiting and possibly ...

Studying insect-eating bats isn’t easy: they’re tiny, fly at night, and navigate using ultrasonic frequencies far above human hearing range. But experts in India have come up with a potential solution ...