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, ...

A new study explores the shocking similarities between greater sac-winged bat pup vocalizations and human baby babble.

Crowded skies are forcing gray bats to adjust their echolocation, revealing how they adapt their calls in real time to avoid ...

Bats are dependent upon echolocation to catch their insect prey. But competition for resources is fierce among bats, so they’ve evolved the capacity to “jam” the signals of other bats to send them off ...

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 ...

It’s now well-established that bats can develop a mental picture of their environment using echolocation. But we’re still figuring out what that means—how bats take the echoes of their own ...

Researcher May Dixon discovered that frog-eating bats could recognize ringtones indicating a food reward up to four years later Vanessa Crooks Researchers used speakers to play ringtones to the bats ...