Smooth, Manmade Surfaces Create a "Blind Spot" for Bats Using Echolocation (IMAGE)

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Smooth, Manmade Surfaces Create a "Blind Spot" for Bats Using Echolocation

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A single greater mouse-eared bat about to take off. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 8, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Greif at Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Acoustic mirrors as sensory traps for bats."

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Stefan Greif

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