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Bats are fascinating creatures and are the only true flying mammals. There are over 1,500 species worldwide, so they account for around 20 percent of all mammals! You will find them almost everywhere ...

Many species of bats use echolocation to avoid obstacles like tree branches and hunt small insects as they fly through the dark. But it turns out echolocation for bats is much more than just a ...

P. kuhlii above a spectrogram of its echolocation sequence. Source: Eran Amichai, used with permission. Many bats navigate using echolocation—emitting high-frequency sound pulses and analyzing the ...

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