Echolocation

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Are bats really blind? Not exactly. Besides their eyes, bats use a special process called echolocation to navigate their environment. Watch this video to find out how bats "see" the world around them as they look for prey in the dark. #echolocation #scicomm #bats

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So this is my 3 year old's absolute favorite "cartoon" right now. He was obsessed with whales but just recently became obsessed with bats also. I played this for him and he prefers it to the 1 annoying bat cartoon that exists. Well he is just crazy about this video!He calls this the "yell yo bat". He is just the happiest little toddler for the whole 4 minutes this is playing. Can who ever made this please make more?! 😆

meganashman

Everybody else: "My teacher's making me watch this! I'm using this for school!"
Me: Using this to improve the design and scientific accuracy of yet another one of my invented dragon species

lomstwyvern

Fun fact: If the reflected sound waves reach our ears before the completion of 0.1 seconds, then our brain does not perceive the original sounds reflected as separate sounds.

carlajames

I use echolocation to find my air pods.

creedbratton

Thank you for creating this video. This ability is actually quite beautiful. I first learnt about echo location in a documentary about blind people who use it by making clicking sounds to create a projection of their immediate environment in their minds. I actually came across your video after first wanting to hear the song of a Bluebird, and it sounded very much like something I had heard before but could not immediate recognise, and this eventually came to me as a memory of when I had heard some kind of echo location or sonar in the past. I still can't remember where I heard it from. Weird stuff.. weird science! I loved that movie.. But anyway! I'll end it hear as there are literally almost infinite tangents that I could go on here. Thank you once again.

ryanputland

dude this was so helpful im using it on my scinece project fo school

jaybroz

Great explanation! I particularly liked the amount of detail in the actual biological workings.

One minor thing though; the ending implies SONAR/RADAR took inspiration from animal echolocation; but I believe SONAR/RADAR technology was developed BEFORE the discovery of echolocation in animals... although the latter does continue to offer inspiration as we learn more about it :)

Novodantis

Finally found out how echolocation is really goes!!!

sudhasingh

i can hear bats, the chirp i recieve doesnt sound like that, its a higher frequency and pitch. love this video

ciaraartsplash

It is <not> true that SONAR was developed by studying bats.
SONAR was developed pre 1920 and modern work on bat echolocation was done starting in the 30s.
griffin and galambos seminal work was published in 1941.
the major work was published from the 1950's on

mgevirtz

my teacher is making me watch this even though wild cratts already taught me this 5 years ago

xxaudreyeditsxx

Bats are what inspires humans to build radar.

lexusdriver

sometimes I use echolocation to know if my mom is near when eating at the middle of the night

zush_iii

Humans can’t hear the frequency of a bat
Me: pft! I can hear them clearly

SwiftKey_

I once had a stupid teacher who kept telling me that bats are blind, while even the books we had for class clearly stated that they are sensitive to light(yeah, you need to have sight for that, can't be sensitive to light if you are blind).It's obvious they use echolocation to help with hunting and seeing in the dark, and not because they are blind, but because it's just hard to see in the dark over great distances.I even had an argument some some geek that had grandma glasses, with the processing power of a dead plant, who also kept telling me that bats are blind, even tough he knew that they were sensitive to light and had EYES ! I mean. I mean, you don't need more proof for this other than knowing that they are sensitive to light and have eyes.

lexlex