Abstract
Along with birds, bats are one of two vertebrate groups to have evolved the ability to fly and thus to range over wide distances. With such ability comes the problem of finding the way home again. The field of orientation and navigation in animals has been active for more than 50 years, but bats continue to be one of the most poorly understood animals in this respect. This is in the most part because of the difficulty of studying an animal that is small, cryptic and generally much faster than the scientists trying to observe it. However, a gathering body of evidence is starting to shed light on how bats are able to navigate over large distances, but some questions remain unanswered. In this article I discuss how bat navigation can be studied, what is known, and what future research directions need to be addressed.
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