The genius bat: the secret life of the only flying mammal

Introduction

Part One: Sociality

On vampires and socialization

On living in groups in hammer-headed and fish-eating bats

On sac-winged bats and animal language

Part Two: Echolocation

On horseshoe bats and the doppler effect

Into the brain of the little brown bat

On time and space

On shrews and tenrecs

On the war between bats and insects

Part Three: Evolution

On the echolocation of fossils

On bat bones

On the genes of echolocation

How new bat species emerge

Part Four: Nature conservation

On bats and humans

On bat diseases

On bats and the future

Epilogue