Microbat

Tiger moth has a unique method of avoiding bats. They produce clicks that causes the bats to be confused. Bats rely on sounds in order to figure out where their preys are. Tiger moths are able to mess with that to avoid being eaten. Scientists are unsure of how the clicks affects the bats. This article focuses on the theories of how the clicks interferences with the bats. There are three theories: the phantom echo, the ranging interference, and the masking hypothesis. The phantom echo states that the clicks are similar to bat call. This means that the bats will misinterprets it as echoes from an object. Bats would have to move around the object that doesn’t really exist therefore avoiding the moth. The ranging interference uses the idea that the clicks’ soundwaves interference with the bat call. This leads to a change in the echo which means the bat distance perspective is messed up. The bat would think the moth is closer or father than it’s actually is. This leads to the bat to display capturing activities in the wrong place. The last theory states that the clicks are intense enough that the bat cannot detect it which means the moth become invisible. There had been other theories but the article wanted to focus on these three. Four brown bats were used in the experiment. The bats were observed over the seven days of the experiment. Each night, moths were released and the bats had five tries to figure out where the moth was. Their activities were observed through a…

It has been known for many years that bats use echolocation to navigate and find prey in the dark. What has been left unanswered is how that when bats are flying together are not found running into each other due to interference of sound waves from their neighbours. It is known that bats do not have any problems with this interference because bats have been observed flying in swarms and capturing prey with not a problem. What scientists are now trying to discover is how the bats can get around…

A mammal is a vertebrate organism with hairy body that give birth to live young and feed their young with mammary gland. Out of the 29 Orders of mammal, the Order Chiroptera (bats) is the only Order that can fly. Bats is the only mammal that have modified limbs allowing it to achieve the ability to fly (Hickman, 2015). Bats is also the only few mammals that have the ability to use echolocation- the ability to use high frequency sound to navigate the environments. Bats are divided into two…