Bats use 'acoustic flow velocity' to navigate complex environments in darkness

A long-standing mystery about how wild bats navigate complex environments in complete darkness with remarkable precision, has ...
Hoodline

University of Cincinnati Engineers Create Robot Bat to Mimic Night-Hunting Echolocation

Researchers made a robot bat that demonstrates how real bats use echolocation to find prey at night, contributing to the fields of biology, engineering, and robotics.

A robot bat sheds new light how they hunt in darkness

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...
University of Wyoming

UW Researchers Capture Birds by Day, While STRI Catches Bats by Night

Corey Tarwater (third, from left), an associate professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Zoology and Physiology, shows members of the bat research team from the Smithsonian Tropical ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Birds by Day, Bats by Night: Paired Long-Term Census of Bats and Birds Starts in Panama

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...
WRAL

NC bats improve your day every night, nature experts say

Bats often get a bad rap, evoking images of vampires and other horrors that go bump in the night. But scientists who spent three nights working in the North Carolina swamps are scared to think what ...