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
: The pulses speed up as the bat detects a target [6]. heres_what_bat_echolocation_sounds_like_slowed_...
: Most bats emit sounds between 20 kHz and 200 kHz [1]. For context, the upper limit of human hearing is roughly 20 kHz [2]. use ultrasonic pulses—sounds at frequencies far above the