Cracker: We're Going on a Bat Hunt
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Thank you Damian for a very enjoyable post and video clips.
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Damian Christie, in reply to
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Thanks Rochelle, it was very enjoyable doing it :)
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That was a pretty cool post, thanks Damian.
I think the Bat detectors sound awesome
I wonder if they'd be at all useful anywhere near Wellington...
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Wow - they are seriously tiny creatures, thanks for a great story. Do they really echo-locate at 40 Hz ? Bats are often associated with ultrasound so perhaps you meant 40 kHz (aka 40,000 Hertz). Or 40 ultrasound clicks per second ?
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Damian Christie, in reply to
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Do they really echo-locate at 40 Hz
Where were you when I needed fact-checking :)
If you look at the video you can see the detectors say 'khz' on them, and the dial is set to 40.0, so I guess you're right, yes!
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Lovely story, thanks for sharing. I reckon a fear of bats is not all that weird given their well known role as reservoirs of infectious disease. Even our NZ bats ..
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