Bats wearing tiny mics reveal how the fliers avoid rush hour collisions

Bats wearing tiny mics reveal how the fliers avoid rush hour collisions

As thousands of bats launch nightly hunting, the cacophony of a dense crowd should stymie echolocation, a so-called “cocktail party nightmare.”

The first portable microphone by bats helps biologists to study the right safety record of bats to avoid collisions in the state-of-the-art air. On summer evenings, in about a minute, some 2,000 bats at the tail of mice can come out of a cave opening only about three square meters in the [...]

The use of small microphones equipped with bats enables the fliers to evade potential rush hour crashes

Biologists are examining the bats' safety record during rush hour by utilizing the first wearable microphone.Yossi Yovel, a neuroecologist at Tel...