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Sonar pings from a hungry bat closing in can inspire hawkmoths to get their genitals trilling. The ultrasonic “eeeee” of scraping moth sex organs may serve as a last-second acoustic defense, says ...

A researcher holds a pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) in El Cañon de Guadalupe in Baja California, Mexico. (Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez / UCL/University of Cambridge) If you’re looking for bats, ...

You know what I’m talking about; that accelerating high-pitched beep bleeding into a squeal as the projectile locks-on and closes on your position. It’s the “Oh shit I’m dead” sound for fighter pilots ...