echolocation

Avoidance of predation is a driving force behind the daily movements of marine creatures across the food web, a study concludes.

As they close in for the kill, the flying mammals use quieter echolocation to focus on the chase.

Many plants reflect ultrasonic waves, thereby attracting the pollinators, but one cactus takes a different approach.

A love of music and science led the marine biologist to discover that whales sing songs, a discovery that he’s since used to convince the world the animals are worth saving.

Bats move their ears fast to create frequency shifts in echoes that can give them more information about their prey targets or the surroundings they are navigating through.

Moths’ scales vibrate in the frequency range of bats’ echolocation calls, perhaps helping the insects to avoid predation.

Bats use both echolocation and vision to avoid eating unpleasant fireflies.

Barbastelle bats trick moths with muffled echolocation calls.

New research shows humans aren’t that different from our winged cousins.

Factors such as humidity and temperature can affect how Rhinolophus clivosus use echolocation. 

By investigating the science behind “seeing” with sound, researchers hope to help blind individuals independently navigate the world.

Daniel Kish, who is blind, uses vocal clicks to navigate the world by echolocation.

Louis Herman, who made seminal discoveries on dolphin cognition, has passed away at age 86.

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology University of California, Riverside. Age: 44

Luna moths use their long tails to throw bats off their trail.

As the flying mammals navigate complex environments, they make use of specialized brain cells that cooperate to build a coordinate system that works in three dimensions.

Researchers propose how the disruptive impacts of seafloor seismic surveys on marine mammals might be mitigated.

Researchers find genome-wide evidence of convergent evolution between bats and dolphins.