Bats navigate chaos in complete darkness by listening to shifting echoes, adjusting speed instantly without tracking every ...

Flying bats do not travel through silence. Every call they make comes back layered with sound from leaves, branches, trunks, ...

The experimental results demonstrated that bats rely on acoustic flow for speed control, which may serve them in navigation.

A long-standing mystery about how wild bats navigate complex environments in complete darkness with remarkable precision, has ...

Bats are some of the most misunderstood mammals on the planet. While some do drink blood, the vast majority enjoy a diet of ...

Hair-thin muscles embedded in the skin of their wings allow bats like this Jamaican fruit bat to change the stiffness and curvature of their wings at different points of the wing stroke. That ...

For the past 25 years, Professor of Engineering and Biology Sharon Swartz and Professor of Engineering Kenneth Breuer ’82 P’14 P’16 have been fascinated by animal flight. The two professors have ...