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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Bats may use bidirectional echolocation to detect prey, orient themselves

The barbastelle bat may emit two different types of weak echolocation signals alternately, one upward through the nose and one downward through the mouth, to find prey while undetected and to sufficiently keep track of the environment, respectively.

from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily http://ift.tt/1Lb0mNb
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