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Bats: Seeing the Forest or the Trees

March 30, 2010

Echolocating bats use rapid-fire broadcast-echo pairs to navigate through forests of obstacles. They make subtle changes in each broadcast to keep the pairs from blurring. These bats were flying at night through a forest in Belize. Credit: James Simmons, Brown University