Have you ever seen a fruit bat using echolocation? 🤔 Our Shir sent us a rare (and extremely adorable) documentation of sweet Kevin she is fostering, using echolocation to form an image of his surroundings before taking off in flight. Volume up to hear the clicks! Most species of fruit bats don't use echolocation and only rely on sight (despite what people think, they have excellent eyesight), because unlike insectivore bats, fruit bats' food stays put and they don't need echolocation to hunt it

Scientists have used speech recognition software to decode bat vocalisations and work out which bats are communicating and what they’re ‘talking’ about | HORIZON: the EU Research & Innovation magazine

🦇🌑 The sounds of the night🦇🌑 We use audio devices to identify bat species present across the landscape. Because we can’t hear the squeaks and squawks the bats use for echolocation, these devices pick up the sounds for us. We then run the sound through some nifty software that converts it into a frequency we can hear. The software also visualises and measures the sounds for us. Using these techniques, we can infer different things about the kind of bat that made that call. For example, slow-f