And was that a famous bat-linked bridge in Austin I spied during the video? If so, those were not bb bats. I'm forwarding this to our bat guys here at the office. Louise
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:38:02 -0500 From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Texascavers] How Bats Avoid Clutter 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
