Egyptian Fruit Bat
These clever fruit hunters use subtle tongue clicks between 8-15 kHz to navigate through their environment. Egyptian fruit bats buck the trend among fruit bats, which typically rely only on vision. They click while flying through caves and dense palm groves at night. Their echolocation helps them locate ripening fruit under thick foliage where visual cues aren’t enough. Scientists once thought all fruit bats lacked echolocation abilities. Their discovery shows how this skill evolved multiple times across different bat lineages for similar purposes.