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What Are Ways A Bat Can Communicate?

Echolocation is the word of the day. Most people have heard the term in relation to bat communication. Echolocation is basically the process of building a picture with sound waves. Bats use it to map out their surroundings and locate object in their environment. 

Echolocation helps bats determine the size, shape and distance of the objects around them. They emit high-frequency noises and interpret the pulses that come back to them to generate a picture built by sound waves. 

Some bats emit these pulses through their nose while others make clicking sounds with their mouths. A bat's physical abilities are developed specifically according to their needs. For instance, bats that emit echolocation pulses through their mouths make clicking sounds with their larynx. The species who emit these pulses through their nose have specially developed attributes in their nasal cavities.

The thing is that these echolocation pulses are created at such a high frequency that the human ear can't pick them up. We can use equipment to turn these high-frequency sounds into ultrasonic sound waves. This machinery is called a bat detector and it makes their sounds audible to the human ear. 

This type of machinery aids in the study and research of bats and their habits. There is still much to be learned about this mysterious animal that is so important to our delicate ecosystem.

Bats tend to use echolocation more for navigating and hunting than for communicating. Many people erroneously believe that bats communicate through echolocation pulses, but research shows this to be untrue. 

Vocal Animals

Bats are actually one of the most vocal animals aside from humans. They tend to live in large groups called colonies and they do have techniques for communicating with each other. 

Bats emit a variety of chirps, clicks and songs to communicate with one another. Bats are very vocal but humans can't hear most of the sounds they make.

Their communication tendencies have often been compared to that of the songbird. Like their echolocation pulses, most are too high-pitched to be detected by the human ear.

The sounds bats use to communicate with each other are hyper-personalized within their group. For instance, female bats communicating with other females will sound differently than two groups of male bats engaged in communication. 

When males and females are communicating with each other within a group, it will also be different. A bat's sensitive ears can pick up even the smallest deviation in frequency. In fact, a bat mother can single out the sound of her own young in a group of one hundred bats or more.