
Blair Brings The Bats - DTNS 4485
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The Effects of Ear Movement on Bat Behavior
Bats can use their ears to map their surroundings and track moving targets with the movements of their ears. And just like with binocular vision, we can hone in on something really close with animals with monocular vision that's like a chameleon or a rabbit with eyes on the sides. You can get a 360 view of your space. So they can actually use their ear to do both. They can honed in on what is right in front of them, or they can turn their ears sideways and map their space in terms of the soundscape to see where they are in space. That could be used in in drones in all sorts of kind of actual helpful technology,. but also you
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