Here's What Bat Echolocation Sounds Like, Slowed Down

Bats use a perceptual system called echolocation that allows them to produce high pitch sounds that bounce off nearby objects and living things. Humans can't normally hear these sounds, unless they're slowed down.

From: DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S CONQUEST OF THE SKIES: Triumph

[Captain_Ravioli]

The bugs that happened to find the cave full of bat poop: " This is some gormet sh-t "
no pun intended

[DaveWhoa]

i like how modern technology has finally caught up to be able to provide the great David Attenborough with the tools and platform and effects and simulations etc to make everything as interesting and explained well as possible, it's like David v2.0 when you compare it to the just-raw-footage docos from the 80s. Long live the great man!

[kinni]

Me trying out echolocation*
"AH! AH AH! that's a wall"

[Sufanius]

Amazing. These are flying mammals. Think about how high their metabolism has to be to generate flight as mammals

[KXNSHAAN]

That’s the face behind the legendary commentary voice

[VRAiR-Dee]

Clicked on video expecting bat echolocation.
First forty seconds: Cockroaches eating batsh*t

[yudirudiat]

David attenborough's voice calm me down 😍😍

[destroyedidiots]

I had a bat get in my house and I could feel the sonar clicks in my teeth, I could barely hear it but they say you aren't suppose to be able to hear it. Maybe because of the fact that it was in a hallway but yea thought that was crazy.

[albertschultz]

The hours, and hours I have absorbed his documentaries and narratives defy description. Enriching my life and understanding of the natural world. Thank you so very much.❤

[bluv]

"All creatures big and small."

I helped a confused Bat at work tonight. While making my rounds, ( I have to check on an area of chemical storage tanks and in a lower work area for storing smaller welding gas tanks and such, it's about 20 feet down to the bottom), but it is a seperate concrete "safety" zone. I saw a Bat flying around in circles in an odd pattern. While watching the Bat's erratic flying behavior, I realized it's sonar was off-TILT. The way the concrete chamber was built, there are multiple hard surfaces and angles that would just register as to what they are, a blank wall=No Prey. It couldn't find a way out and the more I watched, I realized the Bat was panicking, obviously the primitive feeling of being trapped. Hoping it would respond to noise, VIA sonar, I made noise above, cheering it and clanking on the metal railing with my keys. Whether it was my keys, voice, flashlight, or any combination, you could almost see the lightbulb go off in the Bat's head when it realized where I was. It decided to finally just fly UP and into the Night's sky, ready to eat mosquitos! I believe in helping all of GOD's creatures Big and Small, (except Mosquitos and Ticks, I draw the line there!)

[Serial_Designation_A.]

Bats are such cute little mammals. I would absolutely love to hear one in real life

[redfullpack]

Batman actually sounds like this instead of low growling grunting in the movies

[roys.]

The presenter has nerves of steel if he can narrate that calmly in a bat cave. I've been to one IRL and not only does it smell like you'd expect, but it also hurts your eyes because it feels almost acidic.

[atomipi]

Im more impressed that you have technology that makes the sounds visible as pulses of light in front of the bat you are filming!.. amazing.. thats more to brag about than pitch downconverting tech thats been around since the 1940s

[meepbeep]

Now I wouldnt do it in real life cause its but imagine making a really loud noise or yelling in that cave and then all those bats started freaking out flying everywhere. I'd die of heart attack

[thunderjawsaiftheboss]

This bat chirp sounds like a hospital bhp monitor

[romanahaider]

I think it sounds like whoh whoh and whoh

[xvelliseraptor]

Why did i feel uneasy and had a headache after hearing the bats

[jediskunk]

I read online that bats are more related to humans than rodents, I'd never thought we'd have a flying primate.

[tverd]

I need help understanding my question. Please help. I was walking my dogs down a dark path and I hear what sounded like birds chirping. However, It was 9:45pm so I knew it must have been bats. I could not see anything but I heard them flying around and chirping and my dogs were acting different. But out of no where i heard this high frequency sound like a house alarm that has has gone off past the first minute, except it wasn't as loud but it was just as piercing through my ears... my question is how is it or why can i hear them using echolocation? I also hear high frequency sounds that machinery make, also sounds that are used to keep rats away from homes. The home owners say they cant hear anything and they tell me it is a device to keep rats away. But i can hear it too... and its very irritating.... help??? Or atleast where do i look for my answer?