Echolocating bats perceive their world mostly through echolocation: they emit a call and listen for the reflected echo, which in turn allows them to “see” what is around them. But if many bats are ...

Certain species of shrews are the first ground-based entry on our list of animals with echolocation. The common shrew (Sorex araneus), the short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda), and the wandering ...

The results provide evidence for the hypothesis that spiders crouch to sense differences in web frequencies to locate prey that isn't moving—something analogous to echolocation. The researchers ...

Toothed whales and baleen whales use sound quite differently. Toothed whales and dolphins (for example killer whales and bottle-nose dolphins) use echolocation for hunting and navigating, while baleen ...