🦇 Bat Week Day 4: Echolocation, Nature’s Built-In Sonar! Bats don’t need eyes to rule the night, they hear their way through it. 👂Watch these bats play and just listen to those sqeeks and clicks! 🫰 Using echolocation, bats send out high-frequency sounds that bounce off objects and return as echoes. 🔈From those echoes, they can tell the size, shape, and even distance of what’s around them, just like a sonar system! 🌌 💫This incredible adaptation lets them swoop through forests, caves, and op

Scientists have used speech recognition software to decode bat vocalisations and work out which bats are communicating and what they’re ‘talking’ about | HORIZON: the EU Research & Innovation magazine

🦇🌑 The sounds of the night🦇🌑 We use audio devices to identify bat species present across the landscape. Because we can’t hear the squeaks and squawks the bats use for echolocation, these devices pick up the sounds for us. We then run the sound through some nifty software that converts it into a frequency we can hear. The software also visualises and measures the sounds for us. Using these techniques, we can infer different things about the kind of bat that made that call. For example, slow-f