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, ...

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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 ...

How do you know what to listen to? In the middle of a noisy party, how does a mother suddenly focus on a child's cry, even if it isn't her own? One researcher is turning to mustached bats to help her ...

Most bat calls are inaudible to the human ear, but ecologist Kent McFarland used software to lower the frequencies of calls from little brown and long-eared bats into a human-friendly range for the ...

Bats might not have the iconic howl of the gray wolf or the movie-famous screech of a red-tailed hawk, but the calls they do make through echolocation generate diverse and unique sounds. Now, ...

You're at a crowded, noisy party. The music is loud; multiple conversations are going on simultaneously. But when someone behind you says your name, you hear it and quickly turn in that direction. The ...

Like people, baby Egyptian fruit bats mimic the noises and chatter their mothers and other adults make, according to a new study published in Science Advances this week. The rest of this article is ...

Few sounds are sweeter in sport than bat on ball. If you have played cricket yourself, you know the rich, velvety feeling of instant wellbeing, the bat feeling light in your hand, and the contact not ...

Imagine listening to music while carrying on a conversation with friends. This type of multi-tasking is fairly easy to do, right? That's because our brains efficiently and effectively separate the ...

You'd be forgiven for thinking the Bat Library is a fictional wing in Batman's underground cave, where he stores all his leather-bound books on crime fighting. But it's very real, and infinitely ...