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Eyes closed: Bats are able to navigate long distances using sound alone

The researchers found that they were also able to produce a sound map of the area in their minds
A flying meteorologist in action. Tel Aviv bat. Photo: Tel Aviv University

Meteorologists with wings

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Urban bat (photo: Yuval Barkai)

Bats also lose their hearing but the process happens in a moderate way in relation to their noisy living environment

Two surprising discoveries: contrary to the popular hypothesis, bats do suffer from hearing loss with age, but they apparently have surprising mechanisms that help them slow down the rate of hearing loss
Two fruit bats in Australia. Photo: depositphotos.com

When neurons change gears: how the brain copes with sudden changes

New research done in bats reveals far-reaching dynamic capabilities of neural networks
Fruit bat. Photo: depositphotos.com

The unique combination of senses that makes fruit bats excellent navigators even during the day

Researchers found for the first time that bats navigate during the day using a combination of excellent vision and locating the echoes in their environment
A moth that has developed acoustic camouflage. Courtesy of the author, Thomas Niall University of Bristol.

Moths and bats have been in an evolutionary arms race for millions of years - and we're still uncovering their tricks

Many species of moths, which are the favorite prey of many bats, have developed all kinds of tricks to avoid being eaten. Some have developed a sense of hearing at the appropriate frequencies and others, lacking the ability to hear, have developed camouflage solutions
A fruit bat pup and its mother (Photo: Yuval Barkai)

From me you will see and you will do: an answer to the question of what influences more heredity or education

Researchers at Tel Aviv University found that adopted fruit bat pups behave like the adoptive mother
Prof. Yossi Yuval and the bats he studies. Photo courtesy of Tel Aviv University

The "super-sensory" watch of the bats

a bat. Courtesy of Tel Aviv University

If the walls could talk

If bats can hear and detect obstacles, why do they still sometimes crash into walls?
Leptonictris bats at the entrance of a cave. Photography: Jens Rydell

fly on it

The bat that traveled 200 km in seven hours and broke the world record for long-distance flight
Bats in the cave. Photo: All-stock-photos/Shutterstock

The whiz of the bat

Crack-faced bat, a large-eared bat species that inspired the drone that navigates autonomously in the dark. From Wikipedia

Soar in the dark inspired by bats

"Similar to humans, the ability of bats to place others in space is essential for them." Photo: Brooke Fenton.

Me and the Guys: How the Brain Maps Social Space

"Caveman's disease" got its exotic name because the fungus that causes it is found in the feces of bats and other birds, and cavemen are at high risk of contracting it. Illustration: pixabay.

The connection between Bob Dylan, bats and a new infectious disease in Israel

Tel Aviv University bat colony. Credit: Michal Samoni.

Bats also learn to 'speak'

Common fruit bat. Weizmann Institute scientists report on a new type of neurons discovered in the bat brain. These neurons encode the direction and distance to the target to which the bat navigates and in this way they constitute a direct neural mechanism for navigating to targets. Source: Oren Pels, Derivative work: User:MathKnight, Wikimedia.

How the brain encodes the "destination point" that you want to reach

A flock of bats foraging for food. Photo: Shankar S., Flickr

Bats in a different light

Bright blue poison dart frog. Photo: Valerie, Flickr

Fly like a frog, navigate like a bat

A common fruit bat eats a fig and thus spreads its seeds. Photo: Вых Пыхманн, Wikipedia

Eco-friendly vampire

Bats in the cave. Photo: All-stock-photos/Shutterstock

From bat chatter to baby talk / Jason J. Goldman

A blind boy from California navigates his way through the world using sonar and his ears. Screenshot from YouTube

The boy who saw without eyes

A bat in flight. Photography: JENS RYDELL

Bats focus ultrasonic beams using the width of their mouths

A flock of bats. Photo: shutterstock

Why do bats hunt in flocks?

Free-tailed bat colony. Photo: shutterstock

The source of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa: bats

Dwarf fruit bat flying at night. Photo: shutterstock

Flight inspired by bats

Extremely fast nectar collection

Robot-Bat: Image courtesy of Brown University

Most of them called

The hexagonal structure of the lattice cells

Knitted - between space and time

a bat. Photo: Tel Aviv University

Bats thrive in bunkers

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

From a mouse to a bat - in a laboratory experiment

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Race with vampires

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Research: Bats evolved in an "evolutionary burst" 50 million years ago