Bats are extreme when it comes to sound production and have a greater vocal range than singers like Mariah Carey and Prince, a new study suggests. Many animals produce sound to communicate with each other, and bats are no exception.
They can produce a range of frequencies, also known as the vocal range, that far exceeds vertebrates including humans. While researchers do not yet know the meaning of all their sounds and songs, they are learning more and more about how all these sounds are made.
According to a new study of Daubenton’s bats, for some sounds, they use the same technique as human death metal singers and throat singing members of the Tuva people in Siberia and Mongolia. Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark, led by Professor Coen Elemans, department of biology, have for the first time filmed what goes on in a bat’s voice box (larynx) when it produces sound.
