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: When slowed down, these high-frequency "clicks" and "chirps" often sound like a series of rhythmic bird-like chirps or metallic "tinks" [4, 5].

: By listening to the echoes that bounce back, bats determine an object's size, shape, distance, and even its texture [1, 6]. Phases of the Hunt heres_what_bat_echolocation_sounds_like_slowed_...

: Slow, steady pulses as the bat scans the environment [6]. : When slowed down, these high-frequency "clicks" and

When you listen to a recording of a bat approaching prey, the rhythm changes distinctly: When you listen to a recording of a

: The pulses speed up as the bat detects a target [6].

use ultrasonic pulses—sounds at frequencies far above the range of human hearing—to navigate and hunt in total darkness [1, 2]. To make these sounds audible to us, scientists use "time expansion" to slow them down, often by a factor of 10 or 20, which lowers the pitch into our acoustic range [4, 5]. The Mechanics of Echolocation