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.
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But now they'll need to figure out
how bats take all this raw sensory data and turn it into a flight plan.
Even if our estimates were quartered, they clearly show
how bats have enormous potential to influence the economics of agriculture and forestry.»
Another discovery made during the experiments and never previously described in research is
how the bats generate forward motion when flying slowly.
Using robotic, inflatable frogs and a large cage with microphones and speakers, a team led by Wouter Halfwerk recently revealed
how these bats have adapted their hunting to noisy conditions.
Using drones could give a more detailed picture of
how bats move around at higher altitudes, says Jones.
A computer program reveals
how bats find their favorite foliage — and how we can use the same trick
Ask any elementary school student
how bats get around, and they are likely to give you the well - known answer: echolocation.
To understand
how bats feel their way around the sky, researchers mapped the arrangement of touch - sensitive receptors on the wings of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus).
A possible explanation has to do with
how the bats are typically killed.
It's not clear
how the bats discern the polarized light, but it may be related to the type or alignment of light - detecting pigments in their retinas, the team suggests.
«That was exciting, but we had no idea
how these bats were persisting with the disease.»
Then, he continued, a few years later «they'll be able to hear
how bats sing or how whales talk, or how dogs talk, and other types of tonal scales.
Santos and his team observed
how these bats spend up to an hour a day cleaning and stuffing their wing bags.
But understanding
how bats use their wings to manipulate the air around them is extremely challenging — primarily because both experimental measurements on live creatures and the related computer analysis are quite complex.
To determine
how the bats approach their insect prey, the scientists used sound recordings and infrared video to monitor the bats detecting and approaching tethered mealworms.
To further investigate
how bats fit into this picture, the researchers surveyed more than 250 bats in remote forest ecosystems in Liberia, Guinea, and Cote d'Ivoire in Western Africa.
The researchers aren't exactly sure
how the bats are able to do this, but suspect it occurs by some combination of tongue deformation and the ability of fluids like nectar to flow without external force in certain narrow spaces, a phenomenon known as capillary action.
Change in viral levels over time might reveal when and
how the bats infect other mammals — and ultimately humans.
Almost 150 years before anyone recorded their ultrasound calls, Lazzaro Spallanzani's cunning yet gruesome experiments revealed
how bats navigate in darkness
Add an increasing number of studies examining
how these bats achieve such high levels of performance, and the proliferation of such information through the game - changer that is The Almighty Internet, and the result is some heavily disseminated ways to tweak legal bats above the allowed performance levels.
The team reviews
how a BAT would work, its likely effect on prices and exchange rates, its implications for the longer - term macroeconomic outlook, its impact on different domestic sectors and trade flows, and the potential ramifications for international trade relations.
Maybe if you did so, instead of just listening to your preacher spew it from the pulpit, you'd realize
how bat shit crazy the stories in it are.
The barber told how Mike Peterson, the baseball star, last season led the Yates Center American Legion team to its third straight Class B state championship, how he was the No. 1 pitcher with a 9 - 2 record and a 1.21 ERA,
how he batted.398 and how he was chosen to the All - Kansas team.
This week we hear stories on
how a bat varies its heart rate to avoid starving, giant wombatlike creatures that once migrated across Australia, and the downsides of bedbugs» preference for dirty laundry with Online News Editor David Grimm.
Among the biggest surprises in store for the researchers was
how bat wings manipulated the wing motion with correct timing to maximize the forces generated by the wing.
This will make understanding
how bat populations are being effected by global change much easier.
Ongoing Discover
how a bat uses its built - in radar to locate its next meal and peer through the eyes of a model bee head to experience how a bee's vision allows it to see ultraviolet light reflected off flowers.
In this mode you control a team of your choosing and can manage the team how you want — you can cut players, trade players, draft rookies, choose
how the batting line - up will be, and much more.
Not exact matches
Kennedy shared her insights about why you need failure to get clarity and
how channelling your passion helps you build up an inner resolve to go to
bat for your business when it truly counts.
• «I was an early RS consumer having spent paperboy delivery money on countless «free» baseball
bat sized d - cell flashlights, the mystical p - boxes and subsequently, Band - Aids (early life lesson on
how hot a solder iron can get...) to returning later as a college co-op student to the Fort Worth, TX headquarters.
The browser is aiming to build a digital ad service around the token that cuts out third parties so that users pay
BAT to publishers based on
how long they browse and read a page.
How should they go about getting quality links right off the
bat?
It is too early to predict the growth of
BAT, and anticipate
how it is going to perform in the near future.
It's no more the application of common sense: If I wanted to learn
how to hit baseballs, I'd buy a copy of Ted Williams» The Science of Hitting long before I picked up a
bat» Frank Martin
How can one debate, first of all, when the opposing party right off the
bat, totally refuses any thing submitted to be of any content?
If it helps, sir, i think that all Christians are
bat - s * it crazy so what this small group of idiots is up to doesn't really influence
how i feel about your nonsensical fairy tale religion.
When he died he weighed sixty pounds, the paper says, and I go out of my way to drive by the address where his brother locked him in the closet, wondering at the blue door, the flower boxes, wondering where the fury started,
how early and
how hidden the first bruise awaking like a
bat, dark wings....
How about those charges for whatever
bat shit crazy thing you imagined happened to you on here??
Among his strongest points is that observations that demonstrate gradual evolutionary changes in specific characteristics (beak shape of finches, color of forest moths, for instance) do not establish
how gradual changes could bring about major evolutionary transitions that require concerted functioning of many specialized organs — such as the change from arboreal mammals to night - flying
bats, or the origin of life.
No one could, for instance, no matter
how fine his eyesight or physical coordination, hit a major - league pitch with a cylindrical
bat if there were not some prior attunement on his part to the subtle spiritual force that flows through all things, a sort of Zen cultivation of the mindless mind, in which the impossible is accomplished because it somehow simply accomplishes itself in us.
How can you get behind a leader if he believes in
bat shˆt crazy shˆt?
So, right off the
bat,
how old is this earth?
This was pie number three look
how scary it is with the
bat on top... The past week i've eaten so much pumpkin pie i thought i'd never be able to eat it again, until i made the final pie, i'm obsessed!
«They provide a great deal of value to the people who are members, but I'm not sure people realize
how much they do for farmers, from going to
bat for us, their education program, and more.»
Considering
how the 9th
bat it hitting.130 and striking out 50 % of the time, I'd like to see us, at least temporarily, go to a seven man bullpen.
What was going to happen when an injury temporarily sapped Puig's
bat speed, or when his frame filled out even more with age and he got less mobile, or when pitchers re-re-re-adjusted to his re-re-adjustments of
how to pitch him?
His
bat, well we'll have to see
how that plays out, but I think Brewer fans will be pleased overall.