Posted on 12/10/2013 5:22:07 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Although bats are nocturnal, they’re hardly flying blind. Most bats see with sound thanks to echolocation: They emit ultrasonic calls that bounce back off physical objects in front of them.
Echolocation allows bats to stalk their insect and plant prey and also keeps them from flying into houses, trees, and telephone poles.
But a changing climate could hamper the ability of some bat species to hunt effectively using sound, according to a new study.
"Bats calling at low frequencies will hear echoes from an object further away than bats calling at high frequencies," says study co-author Holger Goerlitz, a biologist at the Max Wanker Institute for Ornithology in Germany.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
Hmmmm....horse.....
All I need to know.
But a changing climate could hamper the ability of some bat species to hunt effectively using sound, according to a new study.
But the sky might fall! But we have to increase taxes on the commoners! But we have to rescind the commoners' rights!
I’ve personally witnessed the effect it has on Moon Bats.
What climate change?
Yeah, and it’s making unicorns cry...
This effect is vastly exaggerated in this article — and Germany is not going to turn into Malaysia. Moreover, if they shift their habitat a few miles, as the alarmists whined about earlier, this issue goes away.
LOL
It is truly amazing how life on Earth managed to survive for hundreds of millions of years without guidance from Climate Change scientists!
and the enswer to this ‘problem’ is MORE GOVERNMENT
because government is like this big super computer where you input your problems and the solution comes out the other end
We might as well state that climate change is responsible for an increase in homosexuality.
Wasn’t he one of those early-movie villains in Gotham City??
I am amazed at how ridiculous of the premise of this kind of study. There is no individual animal on earth that will be affected by what change may occur in the average temperature on the Earth. If any given bat was given a perfect weightless sensor that reported flawless temperature data wherever it went...the data could not be used by itself to know if the average temperature of the earth has gone up or down. Local climates vary over time to a much larger degree than the aggregate average changes, so talking about the effect of the average global temperature is completely and utterly meaningless, silly, and ugh! WTF is this kind of “research” doing using up valuable paper in a respectable journal? The only explanation I can think of is that it science is seriously corrupted by the politics of “global warming”.
Isn't that another of Obama's many aliases?
BTTT
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How the heck did the bats make it through the last ice age without some knucklehead doing a "study"? Climate change has been occurring since the Earth was formed. These buffoons need to get over it. There is nothing they can do about it.
Bats have existed for millions of years, even before the ice ages, through temperature swings high and low that make the current temps seem moderate and suddenly they’re going to fly into trees? ROTFLOL
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