Echolocation lets animals use sound as a guide in places where vision fails. They send out clicks, chirps, or taps and interpret the returning echoes to find prey, avoid danger, or move confidently in ...

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Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Dolphins and other toothed whales–or Odontocetes–use their heads ...

Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over kilometer-scale distances using echolocation alone. This finding, recently ...

MC: Analyzing hours of sound recordings is tedious and costly, so we collaborated with the Microsoft AI for Good Lab to use ...

Bats belong to the order Chiroptera-not Rodentia. They're actually more closely related to primates than they are to rodents.