5 animals that can hear ultrasonic sounds Bats use ultrasonic sounds to navigate and hunt. They emit high-pitched calls and listen for echoes to locate prey.

What do bats, dolphins, shrews, and whales have in common? Echolocation! Echolocation is the ability to use sound to navigate. Many animals, and even some humans, are able to use sounds in order to ...

The mating calls of the katydid, a large insect, are ultrasonic, beyond the audible limit of human hearing. What if we could hear them? That’s the focus behind a collaboration between the abstract ...

Most devices that use ultrasonic sounds to keep critters away don’t have a high rate of success. DEAR JOAN: We’re having a terrible problem with coyotes. My sister wants to try some kind of ultrasonic ...