Bat Chirps and Echoes (AUDIO)

Brown University

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Brown University researchers discovered how the echoes from bats' sounds can overlap, which can cause confusion about the location of objects in their path. The blurring of sounds and echoes can be heard in this clip, slowed down 24 times from the original.

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James Simmons Lab, Brown University

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