audio: These are the sounds of an Egyptian fruit bat colony. This cacophony, recorded in a cave in central Israel, is actually thousands of bats vocally communicating. A listener with sharp-hearing may also notice the echolocation clicks. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 March 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Prat at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel, and colleagues was titled, 'Vocal learning in a social mammal: Demonstrated by isolation and playback experiments in bats.' view more
Credit: Yosef Prat