For the first time, researchers at Tel Aviv University studied the activity and sensory behavior of fruit bats that choose to be active during the day.
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May. 9, 2021 2:03 PM
How are we going to adapt to climate change? That remains to be seen, but meanwhile a groundbreaking analysis of a 4,300-year-old accumulation of bat guano in a cave in Jamaica shows how they may have coped throughout that time.
The analysis was reported in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences in April. The report starts by extolling the virtues of the aviating animal – no horror of the night but an ecological mainstay by eating the insects we loathe; pollinating; and dispersing seeds, explain Lauren Gallant of the University of Ottawa and colleagues.
Jan 19, 2021
Researchers at Tel Aviv University successfully install a locust ear into a robot, allowing it to hear and follow instructions.
By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel
What happens when zoologists and a computer chip engineer meet at a Tel Aviv University campus cafe? No, this isn’t a joke – it happened to be a cross-faculty project that ended up combining an insect’s ear with a computer chip with the result inserted into a robot so it can hear and respond to voices.
Zoologists Yossi Yuval and Amir Eili met with engineer Dr. Ben Maoz and talked about whether or not it is possible to build a bio-hybrid system that would integrate a biological system into a robot. The person who picked up the gauntlet was graduate student Idan Fischel, who took the concept and made it work – leading to a recently published paper in the scientific journal