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Acoustic Control in the Flight of Bats

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NO one interested in wild life or in the science of flight can fail to be curious about bats, which in skill of manœuvre and fearlessness excite our admiration. The facts that their flight is as technically perfect in complete darkness as it is in daylight, that their wings are entirely different in design from those, of the birds, and that, unlike most living creatures, they sleep hanging head downwards, add greatly to our interest in them. Small wonder if to the superstitious or the ignorant of bygone days they appeared to be guided, controlled and protected by the Prince of Darkness himself.

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HARTRIDGE, H. Acoustic Control in the Flight of Bats. Nature 156, 490–494 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156490a0

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