Biologists attached tiny recording devices that looked like mini backpacks to bats. What they found revealed a surprising hunting strategy. (The Conversation) ...

Bats are nocturnal hunters and use echolocation to orientate themselves by emitting high-frequency ultrasonic sounds in rapid succession and evaluating the calls’ reflections. Yet, they have retained ...

(SOUNDBITE)(English) POSTDOC AT AARHUS UNIVERSITY AND STUDY LEAD AUTHOR, LAURA STIDSHOLT, SAYING: "We're trying to understand how bats can catch pray in complete darkness using only sound and their ...

We all know that bats locate prey in the dark using echolocation, but … is that really all there is to it? Scientists decided to get more details on the animals' hunting process, by equipping them ...