Sentences with phrase «bat sonar»

They found that the moths rarely produced ultrasonic clicks fast enough to jam bat sonar.

Does the sound jam bat sonar or does it warn bats that the moths are toxic?

Not exact matches

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Insect - eating bats use echolocation, a form of sonar, to identify and capture their prey.

If only for a few seconds we could be a bat flying through the darkness with echolocation or a dolphin way down under the sea using sonar clicks.

Analysis of a specific gene has now demonstrated that although bats live in air and dolphins in water, where sound travels five times faster, they independently evolved a near - identical gene that allows them to accept high - frequency sound in the ear — vital for sonar.

Likewise, four non-echolocating bats lacked the «sonar» version.

These insights might lead to improvements to sonar, as well as new, bat - inspired technologies.

Chang, who has written about everything from Mars rover missions to the evolution of sonar in bats, encourages scientists who enjoy writing to consider science writing as a career.

Furthermore, the greater noctule bat's 40 - centimeter - plus wingspan and low - frequency sonar are well - suited for hot pursuit in the wide open sky, but not for finding birds in crowded tree canopies.

You report on bats intentionally jamming each other's sonar when several are feeding in the same locality (15 November, p 16).

It's not just bats that navigate at night using a form of sonar — so might a dormouse, and if so it could tell us whether bats» echolocation preceded flight

«The bats also need to use the slow timing of the right hemisphere to use sonar — which relies on detecting small changes in frequency — to track the velocity of the fast - moving insects they fly after and eat,» Washington says.

However, while Evelyn (Emily Blunt), Lee (Krasinski) and son Marcus (Noah Jupe) occupy a normal sonic space, deaf daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds) has her own unique situation that she shares with the creatures, which are blind yet communicate through clicking sounds and navigate with bio sonar similar to dolphins and bats.

But if you use the active sonar and send out a «ping», the bats will stop coming after you.

That is because bats use sonar to see, they attack the strange noises snake is making and using the sonar tricks them into thinking you are just another bat.

Looking at how bats use echolocation and decoding how it's done is bringing scientists closer to better ways of using sonar for everything from maneuvering robotic vehicles to finding flaws in building structures.

Bats use a sonar pulse that has a long period of a single low frequency and then the end shoots up in pitch, just like a hockey stick.