Bats' echolocation strategy: How dense colonies avoid mid-air collisions

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Mar 31, 2025, 3:00 pm184 ptsTop
Aya Goldshtein, Omer Mazar, and Yossi Yovel have spent many evenings standing outside bat caves. Even so, seeing thousands of bats erupting out of a cave and flapping into the night, sometimes in densities so high that they appear liquid, astounds the scientists every time. But until recently, the bat…

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