How Do Echolocating Bats Perceive Distance?

Written By Mary Bates
Pipistrellus kuhlii above a spectrogram of its echolocation sounds. Credit: Eran Amichai.

Pipistrellus kuhlii above a spectrogram of its echolocation sounds. Credit: Eran Amichai.

Researchers reared baby bats under normal conditions or in helium-enriched conditions, in which the speed of sound was increased by 15%. The results suggest that time perception is innate in echolocating bats and that bats encode the world in terms of time rather than space.

Read the whole story at my Animal Minds blog: How Do Echolocating Bats Perceive Distance?

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