When fringe-lipped bats learn the sound of a dinner bell, they remember it for years. The bats’ enduring memory is comparable to that of other animals renowned for their expansive cognitive skills, ...

Do you know which animal has the best hearing in the world? While humans stop at 20 kHz, this record-holder reaches 300 kHz ...

Long-term memory allows not only people to acquire skills that rarely have to be relearned, such as riding a bicycle, but certain bats may also have that capacity. Biologist M. May Dixon of the ...

Bats can learn to mimic specific sounds, which puts them into an elite group of animals capable of this. Studying how bats can copy noises could help us learn more about humans’ unique capacity for ...

There are certain skills that once we acquire them, we rarely have to relearn them, like riding a bike or looking both ways before crossing a street. Most studies on learning and long-term memory in ...

As creatures of the night, bats face a unique challenge—locating and hunting down prey in the pitch black. The flying mammals have evolved one excellent solution: Echolocation, in which they send out ...

Listening to bat chitchat tells us a lot about their highly nuanced vocal communication Bats are fascinating animals. It's estimated there are at least around 900-1200 species of these amazing mammals ...

For two summers in a rugged corner of Idaho’s Pioneer Mountains, the roar of rushing white water filled the air. But where the loud sounds prevailed, only gentle streams flowed by. These phantom ...

Listening to bat chitchat tells us a lot about their highly nuanced vocal communication Bats are fascinating animals. It's estimated there are at least around 900-1200 species of these amazing mammals ...