New Picture of Bats' Acoustic Sense Emerges

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New Picture of Bats' Acoustic Sense Emerges

Postby peter febb » Dec 1, 2011 7:29 am

New Picture of Bats' Acoustic Sense Emerges
By sending out high-frequency calls and analyzing the echoes that come back, bats can essentially "see" the world around them. Scientists have long thought that bats judge the size of a nearby object based on the strength of this echo, but a new study shows that echo intensity alone does not paint the whole picture.

http://www.livescience.com/17240-bats-sonar-echolocation.html
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