How bats pick out their own calls when flying in enormous swarms

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How bats pick out their own calls when flying in enormous swarms

A swarm of hundreds of thousands of bats roosts in the Jornada caves in New Mexico

Laura Kloepper

A trained hawk carried sensors through a swarm of hundreds of thousands of bats, recording data that helped researchers figure out how the flying mammals manage to pick out their own high-pitched echoes from those of other chatty bats.

If you have ever carried on a conversation in a noisy crowd, you have solved what is known as the cocktail party problem, focusing on a single voice among many. This isn’t just a human…





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