How This Crazy Bat Hunts A Bird
Imagine you’re a bat hunting at night! This is a graph of your real flight path from some incredible new research… that’s teaching us something new about animals that hunt at night…
Nighttime ecology is about as mysterious as the deep sea. For centuries, scientists have found that it’s extremely hard to study this “other side of nature” mainly because, well, it’s dark.
New technology is turning on the floodlights for this elusive world and for the first time ever scientists were able to see a bat take down a migratory bird. Here’s how it went down!
DOI: 10.1126/science.adr2475
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Nighttime ecology is about as mysterious as the deep sea. For centuries, scientists have found that it’s extremely hard to study this “other side of nature” mainly because, well, it’s dark.
New technology is turning on the floodlights for this elusive world and for the first time ever scientists were able to see a bat take down a migratory bird. Here’s how it went down!
DOI: 10.1126/science.adr2475
If you believe there should be more optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe.
#shorts #bats #ecology #science #technology #animation
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