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VIDEO: An international research team has experienced the world of wild bats to experience through echoes recorded on-board the bats by 3-gram computers. The tiny computers also recorded the echolocation calls. view more
Credit: Dr. Laura Stidsholt and Stefan Greif
An international research team has taken a seat on the back of wild bats to experience their world through echoes recorded on-board the bats by 3-gram computers.
In a new paper published in
Science Advances, the research team from Aarhus University and the Max Planck Institute of Ornithology attached echo- and motion-recording tags to wild greater mouse-eared bats in Bulgaria.
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