回声定位叫声通常为超声波——频率范围在20赫兹至200千赫兹之间，而人类的正常听力上限通常约为20千赫兹。即便如此，我们仍能听到某些蝙蝠（例如斑点蝠）发出的回声定位声。这些噪音类似于两颗圆形卵石相互撞击所产生的声音。总体而言，回声定位叫声的特征体现于 ...

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Bats are well known for their ability to “see” with sound, using echolocation to find food and their roosts. Some bats may also conceive a map made of sounds from their home range.

Biologists have found that evolution has provided moths with a variety of ways to evade bat sonar. Some have noise-canceling ...

Bats use high-frequency sound as a tool. With their vocal cords, they bang out short, swift bursts through their nostrils or mouths, molding airwaves and interpreting the pattern changes that ...

People at a loud bar, might lean in to better hear what someone is saying. A dog might tilt its head toward a muted sound. Here researchers wondered how hearing-dependent echolocating bats might adapt ...

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A dog might tilt its head toward a muted sound. Here researchers wondered how hearing-dependent echolocating bats might adapt when a key auditory region in the brain was turned off. They trained ...