Echolocating animals can jam themselves in a number of ways. Bats, for example, produce some of the loudest sounds in nature, [1] and then they immediately listen for echoes that are hundreds of times fainter than the sounds they emit. [2]

Dec 2, 2014 · Mexican free-tailed bats can jam each other’s signals while hunting at night. The interference makes snagging an insect supper even more competitive for the flying mammals.

Nov 6, 2014 · Mexican free-tailed bats make short waaoowaaoo sounds that sabotage each other’s sonar-guided aim in duels over the right to gulp a flying moth out of the night sky.

Sep 20, 2013 · New research shows that the moths, Bertholdia trigona, have the ability to detect and jam bats’ biological sonar—the technique that allows bats to “see” through echolocation. The moths ...

Nov 7, 2014 · It has just been jammed by another bat. Bats live in a world of acoustic warfare. Their sonar, or echolocation, allows them to hunt in total darkness, but it also makes them vulnerable.

Nov 6, 2014 · Scientists observed bats using an acoustic call to jam another's echolocation—the process of bouncing sound waves off nearby objects to sense what's around them.

Dec 19, 2014 · In nighttime flying duels, Mexican free-tailed bats make short, wavering sirenlike waaoo-waaoo sounds that jam each other’s sonar. These “amazing aerial battles” mark the first examples of...

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Nov 7, 2014 · Many active sensing animals, including bats and electric fish, alter the frequency of their emissions to avoid inadvertent jamming from conspecifics. We demonstrated that echolocating bats adaptively jam conspecifics during competitions for food.

Nov 6, 2014 · Now there’s evidence to suggest that bats are sneakily using sonar jamming techniques to make their fellow hunters miss their tasty targets. Like other bats, the Mexican free-tailed bat uses...