Syracuse bats communicate in sounds that are so high that the human auditory system cannot pick them up. Human beings can only pick up sound waves of up to 20,000 waves beginning from 20. Bats however can hear noises of up to 100,000 waves and produce an equal amount of noises themselves. Bats communicate with each other through screeches and chirps that are not audible to human beings above the possible waves that the human ear can hear. These chirps are only audible to human beings as low toned clicks unless they are considerably slowed down, then it is possible to hear them for what they are.



While there have been people who claim to be able to hear bat noises, the idea has not been completely ruled out as some people do have the ability to hear noises that are above the normal range.

Bats also make some echolocation sounds that enable them to navigate around places and find food and their way in the dark. This echolocation also works when the bats produce very high frequency pulsations through their mouths and noses. Though this echolocation, bats can determine the shape and size of objects in their way.

While some of the sounds that bats make while communicating with each other can be audible to the human ear, these sounds are not considered as echolocation sounds. These sounds include the squeaks that you can hear in their roosts or the squeaky sounds that the female bats make with their young ones.

Syracuse bats use their echolocation sounds to locate insects that they can then hunt and feed on. This is one of the most important ways in which the echolocation helps them.

Echolocation sounds are also used to indicate or signal for potential danger in their surrounding. This can be in the form of an intrusion form a predator from which you might hear the click sound before the bats immediately fly away from the area where they were and into safety. Through their echolocation sounds, bats can also avoid colliding into each other while in flight.

Bats are also able to communicate different things with each other. For instance the male bat will make different noises when it wants to mate with the female. Warning noises are also quite different from other noises. Each mother bat will have a way in which she knows her young through specific sounds. This is quite intriguing if you think about the bat colonies where there can be bats by the thousands even. Even more interesting to note is the fact that the human ear can distinguish between noises made by a male bat and a female bat.

It is quite clear that bats do make noises through which they communicate with their environment as well as other bats too. This makes it easy to understand just how they can live and fly in such large numbers without hiccups and also thrive in their environments.

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