[Kripthor] suspected that hunters were getting too near his house. When thinking of a way to quantify this belief he set out to build a triangulation system based on the sound of gunshots. The theory ...

Bats are not blind, but they use a remarkable sensory system called echolocation to "see" their environment. Read below to know more about the same. This image has been generated with the help of AI ...

Only some bats and toothed whales rely on sophisticated echolocation, in which they emit sonar pulses and process returning echoes, to detect and track down small prey. Now, two new studies show that ...

Searching for food at night can be tricky. To find prey in the dark, bats use echolocation, their “sixth sense.” But to find food faster, some species, like Molossus molossus, may search within ...

This Tech Note column appeared in the December 2020 issue as "Cut the Clutter." Subscribe to Discover magazine for more stories like this. One rainy night in March 2007, graduate student Ralph Simon ...

In 1974, the philosopher Thomas Nagel wrote a classic paper in which he asked, "What is it like to be a bat?" Nagel's choice of a bat was especially apt for making the point that some kinds of ...

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To find prey in the dark, bats use echolocation. Some species, like Molossus molossus, may also search within hearing distance of their echolocating group members, sharing information about where food ...