To detect plants, bats emit ultrasonic pulses and decipher the various echoes that return. A research group in Tübingen, Germany has developed a computer model to imitate this process of plant identification.
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Fruit bat in flight. To detect plants, bats emit ultrasonic pulses and decipher the various echoes that return. (Credit: iStockphoto/Gijs Bekenkamp) clipped from sciencenow.sciencemag.org
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