Shrews.2C tenrecs and rats Animal echolocation

terrestrial mammals other bats known echolocate include 2 genera (sorex , blarina) of shrews , tenrecs of madagascar. these include wandering shrew (sorex vagrans), common or eurasian shrew (sorex araneus), , short-tailed shrew (blarina brevicauda). nature of shrew sounds unlike of bats low amplitude, broadband, multi-harmonic , frequency modulated. contain no ‘echolocation clicks’ reverberations , seem used simple, close range spatial orientation. in contrast bats, shrews use echolocation investigate habitat rather additionally pinpoint food.

there evidence blinded laboratory rats can use echolocation navigate mazes.