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This reminds me of the old “bats use sonar and can fly super precisely without crashing into each other in pitch black” and then it turns out that they crash in
by taneq 4mo ago
This reminds me of the old “bats use sonar and can fly super precisely without crashing into each other in pitch black” and then it turns out that they crash into each other all the time.
- Kim_Bruning 4mo agoYou have a source or observation for that? All I can find is the exact opposite, that they do just fine even in challenging conditions.
- 0x000xca0xfe 4mo agoI often cycle a road with lots of bats hunting and one evening two slammed into my face and upper body (and one only avoided by ducking quickly). It's pretty obvious that they are not perfect navigators.
- type0 4mo agoIf you watch them fly it always looks more chaotic than birds.
- taneq 4mo agohttps://www.vice.com/en/article/bats-crash-into-each-other-all-the-time-high-speed-cameras-reveal/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/bats-crash-into-each-other-a...