Until now, no one had produced the Batman theme by using sounds made by actual bats. Here is that doubly batty theme, played with original instruments (plus a bit of technology): The non-bat members of the team wrote this description: Bats produce sounds that are not audible to human ears. First these ultrasounds were digitally […]
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What do ears do for bats?
To clarify, a global consortium of researchers (co-ordinated via the Active Perception Lab at the University of Antwerp, Belgium ) spent 38 months constructing and testing a bionic bat head called the Chiroptera Inspired Robotic CEphaloid (CIRCE). Much like a real bat head, the bionic bat head has moveable pinnae which can rotate and lock-on to […]
New bat fellatio study gives insights
A new study helps answer the question raised in Thomas Nagel’s 1974 philosophy essay “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” A team of Chinese and British researchers focuses on one measurable aspect: “Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time,” Min Tan, Gareth Jones, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, Shuyi Zhang […]