Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Bat tracker can detect subtle differences in echolocation calls

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A free tool called iBatsID can identify 34 different species of bats from around Europe, by analysing the pips and speaks of their echolocation calls.


Charlotte Walters from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) worked with an international team of ecologists to select 1,350 calls (of 34 different European bat species) from EchoBank -- a library of more than 200,000 bat calls.


By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/07/bat-tracker

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