Mark, thanks for that link.  Yes, it was strange that they use some WNS
bat images.  I suspect that they just glommed a bunch of video and still
images from the internet for that piece, since the interview was
obviously done over the phone.  There were multiple species of bats
shown in the video, some of them not even from North America.  They
didn't identify the test species in the article, but the abstract from
Science says they were big brown bats, which is what the first couple of
still images show.

BTW, if anyone has a subscription to Science and can download the full
PDF of the article from their website, I would appreciate a copy.

-- Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Minton [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 10:20 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: [Texascavers] How Bats Avoid Clutter

New research has shown how bats use their sonar to distinguish between
intended targets and background clutter:
<http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2011/07/bats>.  Check out the
video.  It's weird that they include a couple of photos of bats with
WNS, which isn't mentioned and has nothing to do with their research.

Mark Minton

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