One of the interesting things that I learned about bat echo location is that if we could hear them they would be absolutely deafenning to us because their chirps are so loud.
The sound of a bat echo is a chirp: it sounds just like a bird chirp if you slow it down enough. I know because I tried it once - slowed down a bat chirp using an audio tool on my PC. I think the bat detector is producing a click for each "chirp" it hears.
Maybe the sounds are made up by the box when it detects the start of an ultrasound stream from the bat; but I don't think they have nothing to do with the real waveform of the bat's sounds.
Am i not supposed to hear the sound that comes when dawkins turns on the machine? Im not talking about the echo sound made for human ears but the high frequent low bat-sound
One of the interesting things that I learned about bat echo location is that if we could hear them they would be absolutely deafenning to us because their chirps are so loud.
artyfarty2 2 years ago
@artyfarty2 I read that in 'The Blind Watchmaker'. I consider us pretty lucky that we can't hear them :).
mime454 1 year ago
How adorable! ^-^ The bat's pretty cute too ;)
SparrowisSexy 3 years ago
Bats are cool
Lookatmeimdriving5 3 years ago
Thats so cute, ha ha.
sSereth 4 years ago
The sound of a bat echo is a chirp: it sounds just like a bird chirp if you slow it down enough. I know because I tried it once - slowed down a bat chirp using an audio tool on my PC. I think the bat detector is producing a click for each "chirp" it hears.
yobabyyo 4 years ago
(now I understand)
The sounds we hear just after Dawkins has turned on the box may be... I dunno!
Perhaps a ringing interference due to some electronic device nearby.
darkbrook 4 years ago
Maybe the sounds are made up by the box when it detects the start of an ultrasound stream from the bat; but I don't think they have nothing to do with the real waveform of the bat's sounds.
darkbrook 4 years ago
I think you'll find they are modulated into our hearing range.
artyfarty2 2 years ago
Am i not supposed to hear the sound that comes when dawkins turns on the machine? Im not talking about the echo sound made for human ears but the high frequent low bat-sound
Theologikos 4 years ago
Doesn't it depend on they species of bat? There are various echo location methods employed by bats.
artyfarty2 2 years ago