A long-standing mystery about how wild bats navigate complex environments in complete darkness with remarkable precision, has ...
Like so many mini submarines equipped with sonar, they deftly navigate dark forests and caves by listening for the echoes of ...
Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...
Powered flight in nature has only evolved through four stages. The earliest stage, the pterosaur, was a flying reptile that is now extinct. Today, insects, birds and bats represent the remaining ...
A new study shows how the brains of Egyptian fruit bats are highly specialized for echolocation and flight, with motor areas of the cerebral cortex that are dedicated to sonar production and wing ...
Scientists have finally cracked the code on how bats fly through dense forests without crashing. This discovery of sound flow ...
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 ...