When fringe-lipped bats learn the sound of a dinner bell, they remember it for years. The bats’ enduring memory is comparable to that of other animals renowned for their expansive cognitive skills, ...

Citizen scientists listened to pairs of mating sounds from 16 different species, including male zebra finches, and selected their favorites. Photo credit: Raina Fan.

Long-term memory allows not only people to acquire skills that rarely have to be relearned, such as riding a bicycle, but certain bats may also have that capacity. Biologist M. May Dixon of the ...

Bats are born knowing the speed of sound. This may not be shocking, as they rely on echolocation to find food and avoid crashing into trees in the dark. But unlike birds that learn their songs, or ...

P. kuhlii above a spectrogram of its echolocation sequence. Source: Eran Amichai, used with permission. Many bats navigate using echolocation—emitting high-frequency sound pulses and analyzing the ...

Listening to bat chitchat tells us a lot about their highly nuanced vocal communication Bats are fascinating animals. It's estimated there are at least around 900-1200 species of these amazing mammals ...