Researchers have demonstrated that echolocating bats use an acoustic cognitive map to navigate long distances in complete darkness, identifying their locations and finding their way home. This study, conducted with Kuhl’s pipistrelle bats in Israel’s Hula Valley, reveals that bats utilize echolocation, and, surprisingly, vision as well, to perform map-based navigation, challenging previous assumptions about [...]from SciTechDaily https://ift.tt/igLnkAw
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