Comment on Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills

somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  www.fcgov.com/naturalareas/pdf/batarticle.pdf

  Myth: Bats get tangled up in people’s hair.

  Fact: Bats navigate and catch tiny insects using echolocation. This system is extremely refined and more sophisticated than radar. Bats can detect single strands of human hair and can easily avoid your hair.

  And then there was Bugsy, who was kind of an idiot.

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Didn’t scientists set up a high speed camera to see the amazing echolocation avoidance tactics of bats in action and actually ended up filming tons of collisions? I remember seeing that in some documentary.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, if so, I want to see a bloopers film with bats colliding in slow motion.

      squeak squeak squeak WHACK SQUEAK SQUEAK

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    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yep. Just because they are sensitive enough to detect something doesn’t mean they are agile enough to avoid it. I can see my environment just fine and I still give myself bruises walking in to tables and door frames.

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  • frozenpopsicle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Seriously echolocation must have its drawbacks. Cause I been hit twice by bats in the face. No issues. Just a half minute of WTF.

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