Bats and death metal singers have more in common than we imagined
Death metal fans might just have a new mascot.
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Death metal fans might just have a new mascot.
Study: Bats have a vocal range of seven octaves, while most humans only have a range of three.
Daubenton’s bats use false vocal folds in their throat to produce a lower frequency grunt for communication – the same structure that lets death metal singers growl
According to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Coen Elemans at the University of Southern Denmark and colleagues, bats use unique regions in the larynx to create high-frequency echolocation calls and lower-frequency social cries
The findings emerged by scientists who were studying how bats produce high frequency sounds for echolocation.