Bat Moves and More

Take a look at the winners of this year’s Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Science magazine. Particularly noteworthy is a dramatic video that shows a bat tracking and capturing a praying mantis. This video was made by researchers at the University of Maryland, who combined slow-motion video, animation, and sound to show how a bat uses its acute acoustic senses to survive.

Go to: http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/events/sevc/results_2004.htm and http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/batlab/
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