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Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience mapped the brain regions controlling movements in Egyptian fruit bats. Large regions of motor cortex are dedicated to the tongue, which makes sonar ...

Julius Nziza still remembers the moment vividly. Just before dawn on a chilly January morning in 2019, he and his team gently extracted a tiny brown bat from a net purposely strung to catch the ...

Bats, often misunderstood creatures of the night, play a vital role in our ecosystems. Contrary to popular belief, bats are not blind and many species have excellent eyesight. They use echolocation, a ...

As darkness falls and the air begins to cool, thousands of bats burst from the narrow mouth of their cave. The sky comes alive with their flapping wings, filling the air like a living liquid. It's a ...

Many bats are famous for their ability to navigate by a biological form of sonar, often called echolocation. So it made news a couple of years ago when scientists concluded that the ancient bat ...

Several animals, including bats, use a navigation technique known as echolocation, which utilizes high-frequency sound emission to make the creature aware of nearby objects. The method works because ...

Bats and dolphins aren’t the only animals that can use echolocation to detect objects in their environments. Humans can use echolocation too, and it’s a game-changer for people who are blind. On ...

Echolocation in bats is generally seen as a sort of natural sonar, in which the bats use ultrasonic clicks to navigate the night sky and find prey. But it may also be a rudimentary language, ...

High-speed recordings of Egyptian fruit bats in flight show that instead of using a primitive form of echolocation, these animals actually use a technique recently developed by humans for surveillance ...

Those of you who followed news from biology a few years back are probably aware of reports of a "language gene." That gene, FOXP2, was found to be altered in families with a history of disabilities ...