Jornada Cave in New Mexico is home to a colony of hundreds of thousands of bats.
Laura Cropper
Trained hawks carried sensors into colonies of hundreds of thousands of bats and recorded data that will help researchers understand how the flying mammals distinguish their own high-pitched echoes from those of other, more chattering bats.
If you’ve ever tried to carry on a conversation in a noisy crowd, you’ve solved what’s known as the cocktail party problem by focusing on one voice among many. This isn’t just a human problem…
Source: www.newscientist.com
