How Japanese Horseshoe Bats Solve Noisy Echolocation in Crowded Colonies

When greater Japanese horseshoe bats hunt in crowded colonies, their high-pitched echolocation signals overlap to create background noise, but according to a study published in the Journal of Comparative Physiology A by Doshisha University researchers, these bats gradually adjust their calls to share nearly identical frequencies, helping them receive clearer echoes and detect prey. How … Read more

How Colony Bats Harmonize Their Sonar: Secrets of Bat Echolocation

Greater Japanese horseshoe bats living in colonies adjust and align their echolocation call frequencies to prevent acoustic interference, according to a study published in the Journal of Comparative Physiology A. Researchers Haruhito Matsumoto, Soshi Yoshida, and Shizuko Hiryu of Doshisha University tracked wild-caught bats introduced to a captive colony and found that the animals asymmetrically … Read more