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Smooth, Manmade Surfaces Create a "Blind Spot" for Bats Using Echolocation (3 of 12)

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Smooth, Manmade Surfaces Create a "Blind Spot" for Bats Using Echolocation (3 of 12)

video: High-speed recording of a greater mouse-eared bat avoiding a collision at the last moment. 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." view more 

Credit: Stefan Greif


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