Sentences with phrase «sounds of bats»

When a user is outside at night, the device picks up the inaudible sounds of bats flying overhead.

The walks enabled the audience to listen and see the incredible sounds of bats flying around the Olympic Site, through mobiles, tablets and special microphones.

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So, on a later trip, they took detectors with them that are normally used to pick up the high - frequency sounds of bats.

Baseball outings are so much fun — the sound of bat meeting ball, the Cracker Jacks, the seventh - inning stretch, the sense of history — that even people who aren't sports fans can have a blast.

The way I did that was through my tee work, where I would concentrate on the action — really listen to the sound of the bat hitting the ball, the sound of the ball hitting the back of the net, the breathing, and really getting into that moment and action of hitting.

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The ping of an aluminum baseball bat is not a common sound at Pahokee High School, a place far more known for it's tradition of producing top pro and college football players.

Soon the Dukes» dugout is filled with Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach — and the bleachers are filled with the sound of the Dukes» bats.

Then I heard the two strange sounds I still associate with evenings in Igbaja: first, fruit bats pinging in the dense mango trees overhead, and then, from the big mosque in the center of town, the distorted hiss and crackle of the recorded muezzin, calling the Muslim faithful to evening prayer and» I couldn't help thinking» if necessary, to holy war.

Our defense and pitching are really sound, but we have to develop our bats by the end of the year.»

While some extra tackles should have been made and a ball should have been batted down instead of bouncing off the face mask, the defensive game plan was sound, and it worked.

At the sound of the ball hitting the bat, in the broadcast booth the chief voice of the Atlanta Braves rose against the tumult to describe the event over the air to his part of the outside world.

Back on that nameless, soiled field, where I took my round of disreputable BP, the balls shot off the dirty bats with the force of a cannon, the pinging sound masking the peril.

Years ago in Vero Beach, Fla., spring home to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the shattering of an elderly woman's jaw by a foul ball could be heard at the batting cage; it sounded as if someone had stepped on an unopened bag of potato chips.

Hamilton still batted.255 /.316 /.426, which doesn't sound like much until you remember how pitcher - friendly Angels Stadium of Anaheim is — that was good for a 110 OPS +.

Go apple picking Jump in a pile of leaves Make some autumn art Collect colourful fall leaves Collect seeds from plants in the garden Plant bulbs for next spring Make a bird feeder Make leaf prints Make pumpkin playdough Create an Autumn poem Go looking for spider webs Make a nature table with your Autumn finds Bake an apple pie Carve your own pumpkin Make Autumn sun catchers Go on a bat watch at dusk Make toffee apples Set up a scavenger hunt Collect sycamore seeds Grab an umbrella and go singing in the rain Throw a Halloween party Make an autumn wreath for your door Make a bug hotel Listen to the sound of leaves crunching under your feet Collect conkers Collect pinecones Collect twigs Make hot chocolate Draw or paint some autumn still life Attend harvest festival Make apple crisps / chips Remember what you're thankful for Take pictures of all the different colours you can find in a woodland Make leaf rubbings Go stargazing Have an autumn picnic Look for a full moon Go trick or treating Try apple bobbing Make apple sauce Fly a kite Make a windsock Dry orange slices Roast pumpkin seeds Make Halloween biscuits Make a rain catcher Build an indoor fort Collect acorns Donate old woollens and coats to a charity Help clear leaves from the lawn

Little children will love listening to sleeping cats purring, owls twit - twooing and bats squeaking when they press the sound buttons on the pages of this beautifully illustrated book.

Bats have good eyesight and most use echolocation (a series of sound waves) to search for food.

The first signs of Spring are often its sounds — the first chirping robin, the honking of geese travelling North or the crack of the bat at a ballgame on a crisp afternoon.

Killer birds brunch on bats» brains It sounds like the avian equivalent of an Ozzy Osbourne concert.

When bathed in LED illumination, free - flying moths are less likely to plunge or spiral downward at the sound of an incoming predatory bat (SN Online: 8/4/15).

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.

Elizabeth Preston wrote about a blind 13 - year - old boy who has learned to use echolocation, a way of seeing with sound, more commonly associated with animals such as bats and dolphins.

Research points to the possibility of such a center in humans: functional imaging has already shown that the human amygdala — like the bat's amygdala — responds to species - specific emotive sounds, such as laughing and crying, Kanwal says.

For example, giving one cluster of neurons a tiny dash of electricity made the bats produce angry sounds, while simultaneously increasing their breathing and heart rates, says Kanwal.

More recently, they made recordings of the sounds using special recording equipment designed to study bat calls.

Other animals may be able to detect sounds too high or low pitched for us to hear, but our ability to discriminate between sounds as close as a quarter of a musical tone apart appears to be unmatched among mammals, with the possible exception of bats.

In Butler's experiment, students engaged either in rereading or in retrieval practice after reading a text that pertained to one «knowledge domain» — in this case, bats» use of sound waves to find their way around.

A week later the students were asked to transfer what they had learned about bats to a second knowledge domain: the navigational use of sound waves by submarines.

Bats and other animals that rely on sounds to detect prey in the dark move their ears much like humans use their eyes to track an object of interest, making constant adjustments to their ear positions.

He compared the sound to the tin - can ping of an aluminum baseball bat, another grating sound for sports aficionados.

Most crickets distinguish between mates and predators based on the frequency of sound: male crickets produce low frequency calls to attract females, while bats produce high frequency (ultrasonic) sounds for echolocation.

The study appears to be «very solid work,» says Lore Thaler, a psychologist at Durham University in the United Kingdom who studies echolocation, the ability of bats and other animals to use sound to locate objects.

Washington says the findings of asymmetrical sound processing in both human and bat brains make evolutionary sense.

Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and American University have shown that, like humans, mustached bats use the left and right sides of their brains to process different aspects of sounds.

«This problem is due to in - depth studies often requiring methods that can only be permitted in animals, but with our new understanding of bat sound processing, we may be able to do this research.»

Bats navigate by bouncing sounds off of objects (an ability known as echolocation), so perhaps it's no surprise that their ears work a lot like mini-radar dishes.

Though it's rare for plants to use sound as an attraction tactic, there are other species that employ this technique, like some bat - pollinated plants in the Neotropics; this, however, is the first example of a plant that doesn't use the strategy for pollination.

Frog - eating bats pinpoint their prey by their calls, and have evolved unique hearing that allows them to detect both the high - pitched squeaks of their echolocation system and the low - frequency sound of calling frogs.

However, when the volume of the ambient noise was turned up to obscure the sound made by the robot - frogs, the bats hunted only the robots which were having their vocal sacs inflated.

The crack, he explains, comes from about 100 cubic centimeters of air being forced out from between bat and ball at less than a 2,000 th of a second, resulting in a sound with a frequency of about 500 Hertz.

Since its discovery, researchers have found that the gene plays a role in the development of language (ScienceNOW, 14 August 2002), that mice need the gene to emit characteristic ultrasonic sounds (ScienceNOW, 21 June 2005), and that it plays a role in bat echolocation (ScienceNOW, 19 September).

Led by Biology Research Associate Genevieve Spanjer Wright, a five - person team from the University of Maryland found that male big brown bats can produce a special sound, called a «frequency - modulated bout» (FMB), that tells other bats with whom they are foraging to keep away from their prey.

It is a sequence of three to four sounds, longer in duration and lower in frequency than the typical echolocation pulses that big brown bats use to navigate.

WASHINGTON (April 27, 2015)-- Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and American University have shown that, like humans, mustached bats use the left and right sides of their brains to process different aspects of sounds.

So, off the bat, it sounds like you — you had the flu, some kind of a viral infection going on there.

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The good news is that it should still sound like a bat out of hell — the C63 comes standard with a sports exhaust system that features an electronically controlled exhaust flap.

It might not sound like your kind of real estate, but then, you're not a bat.