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In about 100 milliseconds, this type of bat can alter his ear shape significantly in ways that would suit different acoustic sensing tasks. A human blink of an eye takes two to three times as long.

Bats are masters at detecting sound—and a lot of it has to do with the mechanics and structure of those adorably large ears. A set of unique inner ear features may explain how one group of bats ...

Journal Reference: Xiaoyan Yin, Rolf Müller. Fast-moving bat ears create informative Doppler shifts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019; 201901120 DOI: ...

The Doppler shift patterns produced by the ear motions could give these bat species the option to concentrate their energy in a narrow frequency band yet be also able to tell target direction." ...

Moreover, each ear moves independently and various parts of each deform at different times—“so at every point of time the bat is listening with a different ear shape,” Mueller says.

The Biden administration declared the northern long-eared bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease.

Bat-eared foxes, which are native to some parts of Africa, have ears that can grow more than 5 inches tall, the zoo said. Along with improving hearing, they help shed heat to keep the foxes cool.

A zoo has welcomed two rare bat-eared foxes, 30 years on from when the animal was last there. The two African foxes, which are known for their 13cm (five inches) tall ears, are said to be settling ...

An endangered bat in North Carolina has a new conservation plan in place. The state's Wildlife Resources Commission approved the plan in April to help protect the Virginia big-eared bat.. True to ...