#Echolocation
Can you do the neat echolocation thing?
November 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
The Al Pastor Futomaki

The loudest owl competing
with a blue jay for screeching
rights when the crow’s caw
crashes the avian soirée.

Maybe we too use echolocation
as we make our way forward
through grocery aisle cleanups &
gas station sushi bars/taquerias.
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In many bat species, thousands to hundreds of thousands of individuals emerge from daytime roosts simultaneously each night, creating what scientists have dubbed a “cocktail party nightmare” of clashing echolocation calls.

Read the NW Magazine Fall 2025 Issue 📲: https://ow.ly/YEaf50XmN3c
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Actually yes! A lot of them have moth-like antennae that are used for echolocation :D
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
3/5 "May 4-Sept 9 survey to record vaquita echolocation clicks, determine its current distribution & estimate abundance based on these sounds. Every 2 weeks, we worked w San Felipe fishers who placed & retrieved hydrophones at 60-80 sampling sites until study area was covered."
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November 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I particularly enjoy thinking about this with bats and whales - cousins who have evolved in completely "opposite directions" of scale and habitat, yet both independently arrived at echolocation.
Little and large.
I really like this display at @nhmwien.bsky.social showing the size difference between the biggest and smallest #mammals, with a single #whale vertebra alongside a tiny shrew.
November 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Now playing: Echolocation by Fergus Kelly.

#Cassunday

fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/echolo...
November 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
A cave dwelling BBEG (possibly bat-like or amphibious (gorgon-esque?)) who uses echolocation to fight/hunt.

Through the encounter, players can only communicate through whispers/passing notes with the DM.

Is this anything?
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Bats are divided into two main groups: microbats and megabats. Most bats are microbats, which are the ones that use echolocation. Megabats are the larger bats that are fruit-eaters and use their strong sense of smell to find food rather than echolocation.
November 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Going a Step Beyond Ultrasonic Sensors

Ultrasonic sensors put the “bat” in Batmobile — they use the same echolocation technique as bats to navigate. Both emit high-frequency sound waves that reflect off objects to determine location and proximity.
www.aptiv.com/en/insights/...
Going a Step Beyond Ultrasonic Sensors
While ultrasonic sensors help ADAS perceive the world around a vehicle, they have limitations that could be addressed by emerging sensing technologies.
www.aptiv.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Just in time for Halloween, Richard Zare of @stanforduniversity.bsky.social and colleagues explore two spooky mysteries: the source of will-o’-the-wisps and how bats integrate vision with echolocation. Listen now on your favorite platform: https://ow.ly/JJpc50XkZTf
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Bats hunting robins (southern Spain)

“They recorded the sound of 611 cases in which they caught insects, but in two of them the attack was much longer, culminating in a vertical flight (with 25 times more echolocation) and robin distress calls.”

(blog) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
#HappyBatWeek!
🦇Fun bat fact: bat echolocation calls are high frequency - so we can't hear them but they are LOUD! 120 decibels loud! Check out this short video from our channel - "How loud are they?"
youtu.be/nksKxitKiqk?...
How Loud Are They?
YouTube video by Alberta Bats
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October 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Bats use their echolocation abilities to find prey, but also to find each other and avoid obstacles. Iturralde-Pólit &co show that the warm, dry air that comes with climate change, alters these calls, potentially costing the bats more energy to make them

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
October 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
There are +1,400 species of bats on Earth. They can be found on every continent other than Antarctica & use echolocation to get food. They're the only mammals who can fly! Some species of bats are found @ the Hanford Site. These include the brown bat, western myotis, & Yuma myotis. #ScenicSpotlight
October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I didn't think he traveled by echolocation... But I sure do now 🤣
October 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
🦇 Bat fact! Many bats use echolocation by sending out high-pitched sounds and listening to the echoes to hunt insects in complete darkness. #WildlifeFact #BatWeek

📸: Tony Joyce | #CWFPhotoClub
October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
bat the game, our main core feature (echolocation) is almost ready 🦇

also don't worry, whole game will be pitch black 🕶️

#gamedev #indiegame #godot #shader #horror
October 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
#BatWeek continues with IOB's
#Vibroacoustic Response of the Tympanic Membrane to Hyoid-Borne Sound Generated during #Echolocation in #Bats
C C G Snipes, R T Carter
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
Carter
etsubio.wixsite.com/dr-carter
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
as a baseline, a lot of creatures can see, hear, and touch (range 1). some intrinsically have other senses, like a good sense of smell, innate solar magic sensitivity, or echolocation.

and these are complemented by various skills, such as ECHO.
October 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Of horrors and wonder

Echolocation
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Pallid bat

IMPORTANT NOTE: Keep in mind that the open mouth of bats in photos like this is just due to their echolocation needs (to emit calls for orientation) and not because of aggression.
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#conservation #nikon #mammalwatching #iucnredlist
October 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Those that operate outside the law utilize a special kind of carrier "bird" that is a sightless raven/bat hybrid that navigates with a magical echolocation.

The party's rogue named his Nightmare.
October 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Together with cudy24 from Fiverr, we are working on echolocation core visual mechanic

#gamedev #horror #indiedev #indiegame
October 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I’m excited to release my new poem-object ‘Echopoem’ at the Small Publishers Fair today! 🦇

Kraft paper matchbox (90mm x 70mm x 27mm), glass bottle with cork stopper containing black calligraphy ink and sealed with scented wax (approx 5g), typewritten card (loose, double-sided), limited edition of 8
October 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM