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Pancho

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Do bats use IR?
« on: 26 August, 2008, 10:55:29 pm »
'cos whenever I stand having a fag in the darkness in the garden the flappy bastards keep circling and swooping at my face.

I feel like Count Dracula.

Found a dead one the other day. A long eared thing it was.
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border-rider

Re: Do bats use IR?
« Reply #1 on: 26 August, 2008, 10:57:09 pm »
Feeding on the insects that are attracted to your body heat and smell CO2 ;)

Stay still and they'll swoop close without hitting you.
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Ian H

Re: Do bats use IR?
« Reply #2 on: 26 August, 2008, 11:10:34 pm »
In the dark I'll find them accompanying me along a lane as they follow between the hedges. One got briefly entangled with my open jacket once. Fluttering wraiths.
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Re: Do bats use IR?
« Reply #3 on: 26 August, 2008, 11:16:50 pm »
Vampire bats have infrared sensors.  But they are only for sensing blood vessels close up, not for seeing at a distance.
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