Ever suddenly realize you had picked up certain words or ways of speaking from a close friend? It turns out that humans are ...

A new study reveals that vampire bats mimic each other's calls if they are close friends, suggesting they have deeper social ...

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Even in loud settings with tons of different noises, we seem to have a knack for focusing in on the most important sounds, particularly sounds of danger. If we’re anything like bats, it’s because our ...

What do bats, dolphins, shrews and whales have in common? Echolocation! Echolocation is the ability to use sound to navigate. Many animals, and even some humans, are able to use sounds in order to ...

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A group of micromoths has evolved the ability to produce a clicking sound with its wings to ward off insect-eating bats, its main predator. But because these moths are deaf, and therefore cannot ...

Bats are the most metal mammals. They shriek to eat their live prey, they sleep upside-down, some of them subsist on animal blood. Even heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a live bat ...

Ever suddenly realize you had picked up certain words or ways of speaking from a close friend? It turns out that humans are far from the only animals who copy the sounds of their closest companions — ...