Bat fact:only mammal that can fly Because of the energy required to sustain flight, bat body temp much higher than other mammals, therefore any disease that moves from them to us is trouble, as our normal defense mechanism of increasing our body temp doesn't work.. bat only mammals that don't get cancer as their requirements for cell repair are much greater due to heat damage incurred during flight
So I was just taking my dog out, still early in the morning, still a bit dark. and heard a bunch of birdies chirping. Kinda sounded like hummingbird chirps but there was just so many. I looked up and whoa. Bats. I am in the big middle of the city and surprised to see and hear so many. Wasn’t 100% sure till I found this video. So glad I found your channel! This is the first video I have found of yours but looking forward to diving in to your channel! You reminded me that there is no need to have a fear of them. Wow! I was reminded what incredibly amazing creatures these are! Thanks for putting this together!
12:08 funn fact: if a fly is resting in one spot long enough for you to (in our perception of time) slowly move your hand above it, without its shadow above the fly, it will not see it coming because it does not recognize the movement anymore. so you can (and I actually managed to do this a few times) pet it.
Another cool feature of bat ears is the middle ear muscle can contract and separate the three bones of the middle ear to prevent the bat being deafened by it's own squeek
Well, would you look at Bat errrr That.. a strangely perfect time to post this video Benn. Two nights ago at sunset, when I suppose an insect buffet was just emerging from its cool shadowy roost, two bats appeared and flew right over my head for about 10 minutes, right at my front door. It was fascinating. They were about the size of my hand and echo-locating like crazy. I could hear them chirping clear as day. By the sound of it, they left with full bellies! It's been 10 years since my last close encounter with bats (which happened up on a mountain). Anyway, would love to hear the fruits of more supersonic nature adventures. The weirder the better! Thanks for posting Benn and recommending Wildlife Acoustics too.
Switching to your channel often feels like reaching into a lucky bag that surprises with the weirdest and most diverse stuff. I also appreciate the thoroughly researched information that comes with your videos. Thank you.
fun fact, if you take that bit where he had the frequency-divided bat calls (somewhere around 7:50 I think) and do the same process again, it's almost exactly the same tones and timbres of whale calls.
Who would have thought bats + Debussy would be so damn beautiful? Your videos always get me to think or feel & this is no exception. These days it feels like I'm always trying to escape manipulative media--so yeah it's really welcome
Man, I admire your enthusiasm for all things sound/music/science. I thought *I* had a lot of time and energy for those sorts of things, but you’re an inspiration.
It's just awesome to hear somebody that actually knows what they're talkin about. Like factual information that is well in opposed to all of these opinions on RUclips.
Back in college (about 20 yrs ago) I designed a circuit to measure wind speed using piezo electric transducers and a oscilloscope ( just like synths analogue is just better)..your analysis of the bat call and response kind of reminds me of this time.. I also know what Freq domain transformations are and I'd say most of your subscribers are familiar with spectrograms that you used to display this..great content
Benn, I’ve been on an absolute binge-watch of your videos in the past two days, and I just want to thank you for making these incredible videos! I’ve found your channel some time ago from like a Spotify video I think, and I gotta say your mini-documentaries are amazing (can’t find any other word because it really feels like a documentary)! Be it on AI and predicting G violence, or recording sounds of remote areas and getting lost at sea, or shady Spotify, or even Behringer drama - they are all incredible! Please, never stop making amazing films like that, they are true works of art in and of itself!
Let's be honest Benn, either you are from the future or from a parallel universe... started to listen to your music more and more, you're definitely not from now and here. Thank you for enriching our lives with your creativity!
Damn you Ben! I've been working on a video bringing bats to the synth world, using a crappy heterodyning bat detector, PD, and an Organelle, but now I'll be riding on the coattails of the great Flashbulb! Haha, oh well. I love bats and loved this video man. Keep on making rad stuff.
This is one of the most quality channels I've come across in years! Thank you for your amazing work man! The editing, the data, the passion, is absolutely next level amazing!
Excellent. What industrious work, to answer a question about the amazing, fascinating, echolocating bat--; that I have always wanted to know all my life--; an accurate re-pitching of their echolocative sound-signals, to a range within-which we could have heard them. The evolutionary convergence with the non-echolocative calls of the only slightly larger, typical songbirds--; seems to confirm or corroborate, what might seem to be a particularly logical expectation about how the bats' calls actually would sound--. Thank You--.
Adobe Audition tip: Instead of doing pitch shift and then converting sample rate, you can achieve the same thing without any DSP. With the original, high sample rate file: Go to Edit > Interpret Sample Rate. That will just change the sample rate value in the file's header and tell programs to play the samples at that speed. Same outcome with no processing required. :) Other editors can probably do this too. It could even be done by directly editing the files metadata (Assuming it's a standard WAV file in the RIFF format)
One of my absolute favorites of videos you’ve done. I’ve always loved bats and my body is littered with bat tattoos. Thanks for the entertainment, bud!
Mr. Benn.... I have never met a sound nerd before! You are fascinating and I am totally hypnotized by the information you’re imparting. Granted a portion whipped past my head in techno hi speed but I got the gist because you explain it so very well. One huge take away is you can catch a fly with patience and reptiles have a much more developed relationship to the world than humans... I think... who cares... you are awesome. Thank you... I’m listening.
Wow, i literally know nothing about bats other than seeing them flying around at night throughout my town. Just happened to stumble on this video and I’ve never been more intrigued by an animal. That was the most informative video, i truly feel like I’ve learned a whole new topic
I couldn't have wished for a better video about this topic. This was very informative and well researched considering this is not your field of expertise. I've always been wondering about how affordable and accessible ultrasound recording might be and this USB microphone looks like an intrigueing thing to toy around with. I'd love to get one of those and experiment. Can you do some follow up videos with this mic? Because I think having an ultrasonic mic is giving you the opportunity to explore other sources of high frequency sounds. Like certain machinery, cars, old gearsboxes lacking grease, electronic components (coils), etc... It's like an accoustic window into a world that's usually hidden from us humans.
Such diverse content.. from legal stuff and industry experience to biology--but all within the realm of Sound. All fascinating and cool. Keep it coming man!
As soon as I saw that increasing interval, I knew it was for honing in on a target. I guess this is why 'simultaneous invention' is so common, because I'd never seen the information, but just seeing it gave me ideas. Really cool. Also I notice a single chirp changes pitch, which I'm guessing helps measure doppler CHANGES during the echo, not just an overall pitch change like you pointed out for relative speed, but to also measure *acceleration*. Kind of how networked games interpolate using speed AND acceleration, until the next network packet comes in. Much more accurate to fill in the gaps, than just sending current speed by itself (I'm a games programmer :) ). In fact it works well to change the tick rate based on proximity, which is what I did with vehicle simulators. Close cars got more ticks. Although I wonder why the frequency went DOWN and the range restricts? I'd have thought it would go up to get more accuracy. Maybe it's tuning the freq in to a specific distance?
Super cool that there are (pretty-)affordable ultrasonic mics. I heard Richard Devine talk about a bat mic/recorder he has that costs several thousand.
Absolutely. Many of those older expensive ones end up using heterodyning on the software side so you're not exactly hearing the actual bat sound anyway.
Thoroughly loved this one! Thanks! Now I know a little more of the answer to the question discussed at so many breakfast tables around the world: "What is it like to be a bat?". ;)
Batty Brilliance Benn, loved it, I think your new look channel is about to get really interesting. Exploring 52 million years of bat sound survival techniques makes 25 years of VST and DAW refinement look pretty amoeberish (is that a word..is now: amoeba + ish). Your vid just expands the mind like a magic mushroom, to imagine that all these spectrums have always existed and that organic matter has evolved to tame these realms in order to survive makes working on an cheesy EDM pumper a pointless and selfish endeavor. Where does sound evolve too from here? Legendary stuff old chum, keep up the fantastic insights. Cheers
To slow it down to 48KHz, you could use Interpret Sample Rate instead of slowing it down and then converting sample rate. Doesn't have to process anything and it happens instantly.
Dude, I've been a sub for a while, and I periodically use some free time to work my way back through your older vids that I either missed or you made before I was aware of you. I have no idea why you don't have 10 times the subs. Your vid quality is ridiculously high, your notions are better organized than they have to be... I mean, you clearly do good work because you can't stand putting out bad work. I will continue to evangelize. I have learned so much from your segments.
Hey man, first thank you for making this channel from the bottom of my nerdy heart. One question: around 14:00 when you are calculating the distance, because your recorder and the bat's ears are in different locations... How can you know the distance the bat is from something without knowing some directional and distance info for you relative to the bat? I suck at math, but my intuition is tingling. Thanks!
So I live in Illinois(Champaign Urbana area) and the same 4 bats come out every night at same times. They know my voice and dance in the sky for me. When I start talking to them to say hello they will chirp loudly which you can hear. Then when they go to their trees to hunt locusts and cicadas, I will say “hello battys” and I will hear loud clicks.
I love your channel and its how I found The Flashbulb. man I am so in love with your music. Thankyou! I really want to buy physical copies of your music but the store is shut down it looks like. I hope Mr Bill puts an FL video out soon too haha
At 3:17 I get the idea of the segment, but lower frequency means the train is moving away from you. To be more accurate, the return frequency should be higher than 900hz.
8:05 I've heard these sounds every night this summer. I thought they were birds! And I asked myself (after my husband who is native to this rural area), "What kind of birds do you guys know of that do this at night? Sounds like some kind of songbirds! Crazy!", My son thought this odd low to high pitch scream was some kind of bird. I now believe it's a bat. Or a Coyote of some kind. Not sure yet. But seems logical in these northern parts of the Appalachians of SE Ohio Valley. But my husband who has lived here all his life says he's never heard a sound like that. If it's not a bat then what is it?
Thank you for this! It was highly educational and it's fun to see you such in awe and so happy. ;0) I agree with Elia Lehman, i'd love to see you do more of those. ;0) Thanks again and keep it up! Would love to support you on Patreon. ♡ P.S. : Saw a documentary on sperm whales yesterday, they have the same technic to get their prey using sonar, when they get closer to them, their ''clicks'' get faster but they also completely paralyse them. I wonder if bats also paralyse their prey with their final ''screams of death''?
Well, now there's ANOTHER kind of microphone I wasn't aware of that I want to play with. This actually seems far more interesting than either hydrophones or geophones to me, which are both on my list of "that would be cool, but not so cool as to make me want to pay for one". It's not really that often I saw orcas in the fjords here, I don't have a boat, and... ok, I may have digressed. Thanks for the bat facts - I must do some research on ultrasonic microphones now.
I came about this channel trying to figure out a sound we have been heating out in our woods up in SE Ohio Valley. It sounds like something making a low to high-pitched yell/screech with each breath. Because you can hear the exhale of its breath at the end of the higher pitch. Starts off low and goes to a higher pitch and quickly halts at the end. We've only been heating it at night though. Usually close to deep dusk this summer. But started last month in June. We really wanna know because whatever it is, it will sound on one side of the woods and then be immediately on the other side within seconds. And it moves so quickly though. To be honest it sounds like either a mating call or a distress call. My son thought maybe it was some sort of bird. But there's no birds that make that sound. Especially at night. They'd be drawing attention to themselves and a predator would definitely end their loud nonsense.
Daaamn son pro audio world needs dark mode bad, burning my retina's here Mindblowing and amazing material though! Thanks for bringing me these video's!
One thing i found interesting is when you said that the echo disappeared, it didnt completely, only the higher freqiency content, which would seem to make sense based on the higher directionality of higher pitches, so the bat might get some idea of direction based on how it sounds? Calls are projected forwards, so lower sounding echoes come from behind?
The whole world: SCREW BATS THEY CAUSE DISEASES! Benn: I LOVE BATS!! Firmly on your team though. They are very interesting. Even though they are full of diseases (their immune system is INSANE! look it up :D).
Your scientific approach to sound exploration is a creative endeavor that would be awesome to see more of.
where that BG sound comes from? from the bat's party?
Bat fact:only mammal that can fly
Because of the energy required to sustain flight, bat body temp much higher than other mammals, therefore any disease that moves from them to us is trouble, as our normal defense mechanism of increasing our body temp doesn't work.. bat only mammals that don't get cancer as their requirements for cell repair are much greater due to heat damage incurred during flight
AND, most bats are much better at punctuation and using minor words, it makes it easier for others to understand.
@@petefluffy7420However, bats aren't all from the same country and are capable of empathy.
There are no documented cases of cancer in naked mole rats
"All animals percieve time differently"
Here for these deep Friday evening thoughts
Hi Guy
And that interesting fact explains the various mortality rates of every living thing.
So I was just taking my dog out, still early in the morning, still a bit dark. and heard a bunch of birdies chirping. Kinda sounded like hummingbird chirps but there was just so many. I looked up and whoa. Bats. I am in the big middle of the city and surprised to see and hear so many. Wasn’t 100% sure till I found this video. So glad I found your channel! This is the first video I have found of yours but looking forward to diving in to your channel! You reminded me that there is no need to have a fear of them. Wow! I was reminded what incredibly amazing creatures these are! Thanks for putting this together!
12:08 funn fact: if a fly is resting in one spot long enough for you to (in our perception of time) slowly move your hand above it, without its shadow above the fly, it will not see it coming because it does not recognize the movement anymore. so you can (and I actually managed to do this a few times) pet it.
Another cool feature of bat ears is the middle ear muscle can contract and separate the three bones of the middle ear to prevent the bat being deafened by it's own squeek
Didn’t know I needed bat facts until now, I’m sure I do
This is the best goddamn channel on RUclips by a long shot
Well, would you look at Bat errrr That.. a strangely perfect time to post this video Benn. Two nights ago at sunset, when I suppose an insect buffet was just emerging from its cool shadowy roost, two bats appeared and flew right over my head for about 10 minutes, right at my front door. It was fascinating. They were about the size of my hand and echo-locating like crazy. I could hear them chirping clear as day. By the sound of it, they left with full bellies! It's been 10 years since my last close encounter with bats (which happened up on a mountain). Anyway, would love to hear the fruits of more supersonic nature adventures. The weirder the better! Thanks for posting Benn and recommending Wildlife Acoustics too.
Switching to your channel often feels like reaching into a lucky bag that surprises with the weirdest and most diverse stuff. I also appreciate the thoroughly researched information that comes with your videos. Thank you.
fun fact, if you take that bit where he had the frequency-divided bat calls (somewhere around 7:50 I think) and do the same process again, it's almost exactly the same tones and timbres of whale calls.
Hearing the bat zero in on its prey by using more chirps in quick succession blew my mind and gave me chills. This video is awesome.
Who would have thought bats + Debussy would be so damn beautiful?
Your videos always get me to think or feel & this is no exception. These days it feels like I'm always trying to escape manipulative media--so yeah it's really welcome
Please do more videos like this - this was probably one of my favorite videos of yours to date. This was incredible! MORE SCIENCE! :)
This is probably by far one of the coolest videos I've ever seen, thanks Jordan!
Man, I admire your enthusiasm for all things sound/music/science. I thought *I* had a lot of time and energy for those sorts of things, but you’re an inspiration.
It's just awesome to hear somebody that actually knows what they're talkin about. Like factual information that is well in opposed to all of these opinions on RUclips.
This was sick. The Flashbulb blowing our minds with his music for years, and now his BIOLOGY SKILLS
This was really interesting, there's a whole soundscape outside our hearing range. So many possibilities for music composition!
Back in college (about 20 yrs ago) I designed a circuit to measure wind speed using piezo electric transducers and a oscilloscope ( just like synths analogue is just better)..your analysis of the bat call and response kind of reminds me of this time.. I also know what Freq domain transformations are and I'd say most of your subscribers are familiar with spectrograms that you used to display this..great content
I learned so much and now I love bats even more. Thanks Benn.
Benn, I’ve been on an absolute binge-watch of your videos in the past two days, and I just want to thank you for making these incredible videos!
I’ve found your channel some time ago from like a Spotify video I think, and I gotta say your mini-documentaries are amazing (can’t find any other word because it really feels like a documentary)!
Be it on AI and predicting G violence, or recording sounds of remote areas and getting lost at sea, or shady Spotify, or even Behringer drama - they are all incredible!
Please, never stop making amazing films like that, they are true works of art in and of itself!
Let's be honest Benn, either you are from the future or from a parallel universe... started to listen to your music more and more, you're definitely not from now and here.
Thank you for enriching our lives with your creativity!
Damn you Ben! I've been working on a video bringing bats to the synth world, using a crappy heterodyning bat detector, PD, and an Organelle, but now I'll be riding on the coattails of the great Flashbulb! Haha, oh well. I love bats and loved this video man. Keep on making rad stuff.
This is one of the most quality channels I've come across in years! Thank you for your amazing work man! The editing, the data, the passion, is absolutely next level amazing!
Dear Ben. This video is purely amazing.
Excellent. What industrious work, to answer a question about the amazing, fascinating, echolocating bat--; that I have always wanted to know all my life--; an accurate re-pitching of their echolocative sound-signals, to a range within-which we could have heard them.
The evolutionary convergence with the non-echolocative calls of the only slightly larger, typical songbirds--; seems to confirm or corroborate, what might seem to be a particularly logical expectation about how the bats' calls actually would sound--.
Thank You--.
Adobe Audition tip: Instead of doing pitch shift and then converting sample rate, you can achieve the same thing without any DSP. With the original, high sample rate file: Go to Edit > Interpret Sample Rate. That will just change the sample rate value in the file's header and tell programs to play the samples at that speed. Same outcome with no processing required. :) Other editors can probably do this too. It could even be done by directly editing the files metadata (Assuming it's a standard WAV file in the RIFF format)
Blown away by the way these creatures work.undeniably the most incredible video I've seen.
So many gems on your channel. I saw this at the end of another video and it's a two year old deep dive with bat facts! Woot!
Benn, your videos keep getting better, keep up the diversity. Cheers!
One of my absolute favorites of videos you’ve done. I’ve always loved bats and my body is littered with bat tattoos. Thanks for the entertainment, bud!
I really like this channel.
Benn always has something interesting to say.
What a wonderful video. Iteresting and insightful with engaging technical detail. Evolution raises so many fascinating questions!
Mr. Benn.... I have never met a sound nerd before! You are fascinating and I am totally hypnotized by the information you’re imparting. Granted a portion whipped past my head in techno hi speed but I got the gist because you explain it so very well. One huge take away is you can catch a fly with patience and reptiles have a much more developed relationship to the world than humans... I think... who cares... you are awesome. Thank you... I’m listening.
Wow, i literally know nothing about bats other than seeing them flying around at night throughout my town. Just happened to stumble on this video and I’ve never been more intrigued by an animal. That was the most informative video, i truly feel like I’ve learned a whole new topic
I couldn't have wished for a better video about this topic. This was very informative and well researched considering this is not your field of expertise. I've always been wondering about how affordable and accessible ultrasound recording might be and this USB microphone looks like an intrigueing thing to toy around with. I'd love to get one of those and experiment.
Can you do some follow up videos with this mic? Because I think having an ultrasonic mic is giving you the opportunity to explore other sources of high frequency sounds. Like certain machinery, cars, old gearsboxes lacking grease, electronic components (coils), etc... It's like an accoustic window into a world that's usually hidden from us humans.
Check out soma labs ether if you are interested in the unheard soundscape surrounding us
Whenever I've seen those 384khz interfaces the first thing I've thought of is bats, so fun to see it be put into practice :)
This is such a cool video. Watched you originally for the mother 32 review yet I had no idea the channel would become this dope
You have become one of my favorite channels. I love your content and hope more people back you up in your endeavors. I know I'd like to.
great job with this material, benn! and fun fact, the bioacousticians call that crazy sound of the bat homing in on a prey item a "feeding buzz" :)
Mind blowing. You are a scientist with a great creative mind :)
Such diverse content.. from legal stuff and industry experience to biology--but all within the realm of Sound. All fascinating and cool. Keep it coming man!
As soon as I saw that increasing interval, I knew it was for honing in on a target. I guess this is why 'simultaneous invention' is so common, because I'd never seen the information, but just seeing it gave me ideas. Really cool.
Also I notice a single chirp changes pitch, which I'm guessing helps measure doppler CHANGES during the echo, not just an overall pitch change like you pointed out for relative speed, but to also measure *acceleration*. Kind of how networked games interpolate using speed AND acceleration, until the next network packet comes in. Much more accurate to fill in the gaps, than just sending current speed by itself (I'm a games programmer :) ). In fact it works well to change the tick rate based on proximity, which is what I did with vehicle simulators. Close cars got more ticks.
Although I wonder why the frequency went DOWN and the range restricts? I'd have thought it would go up to get more accuracy. Maybe it's tuning the freq in to a specific distance?
Super cool that there are (pretty-)affordable ultrasonic mics. I heard Richard Devine talk about a bat mic/recorder he has that costs several thousand.
Absolutely. Many of those older expensive ones end up using heterodyning on the software side so you're not exactly hearing the actual bat sound anyway.
Started watching you to learn Rack, stayed for the fun and quirky synth videos, and now I am eagerly awaiting more wildlife sound analysis.
Thoroughly loved this one! Thanks! Now I know a little more of the answer to the question discussed at so many breakfast tables around the world: "What is it like to be a bat?". ;)
6:05 I was totally asking myself that.
Batty Brilliance Benn, loved it, I think your new look channel is about to get really interesting. Exploring 52 million years of bat sound survival techniques makes 25 years of VST and DAW refinement look pretty amoeberish (is that a word..is now: amoeba + ish). Your vid just expands the mind like a magic mushroom, to imagine that all these spectrums have always existed and that organic matter has evolved to tame these realms in order to survive makes working on an cheesy EDM pumper a pointless and selfish endeavor. Where does sound evolve too from here? Legendary stuff old chum, keep up the fantastic insights. Cheers
To slow it down to 48KHz, you could use Interpret Sample Rate instead of slowing it down and then converting sample rate. Doesn't have to process anything and it happens instantly.
That was fascinating, and I learned a ton! Thank you for sharing your technique and some of the equipment used to get these results. 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Dude, I've been a sub for a while, and I periodically use some free time to work my way back through your older vids that I either missed or you made before I was aware of you.
I have no idea why you don't have 10 times the subs. Your vid quality is ridiculously high, your notions are better organized than they have to be... I mean, you clearly do good work because you can't stand putting out bad work.
I will continue to evangelize. I have learned so much from your segments.
This is somehow the sweetest video you've made
Hey man, first thank you for making this channel from the bottom of my nerdy heart. One question: around 14:00 when you are calculating the distance, because your recorder and the bat's ears are in different locations... How can you know the distance the bat is from something without knowing some directional and distance info for you relative to the bat? I suck at math, but my intuition is tingling. Thanks!
Great vid, i knew a little about bats and their echo location, no idea they were this insane at doing it.. Holy dopplering batman..
Mind blown. Love your channel man. Everything you do is so next level.
This is so cool. Going to link this to a friend that does research on bats!
1:20 😂😂😂 love it. Your videos are great, please keep making them 🙏
I built a bat box and attached it to the side of my house to encourage micro bats, you can see them sleeping in there during the day. Adorable.
And they keep the mosquito population down
Ben that was Brilliant. Thank You.
This channel deserves way more views !
So I live in Illinois(Champaign Urbana area) and the same 4 bats come out every night at same times. They know my voice and dance in the sky for me. When I start talking to them to say hello they will chirp loudly which you can hear. Then when they go to their trees to hunt locusts and cicadas, I will say “hello battys” and I will hear loud clicks.
I actually don't understand most of the stuff you talk about, but I do know frequency domain transformations intimately.( failed the subject 2 times)
"I''m Catwoman, hear me roar."
"Well I'm Batman, hear me chirp."
I legit loved this video, keep up the good work!
Wowww! And to think I have bats swooping around my house every night ... didn't think of its sound design potential!
I love your channel and its how I found The Flashbulb. man I am so in love with your music. Thankyou! I really want to buy physical copies of your music but the store is shut down it looks like. I hope Mr Bill puts an FL video out soon too haha
I didn't know bat calls sounded like Debussy until now. Cool stuff!
At 3:17 I get the idea of the segment, but lower frequency means the train is moving away from you. To be more accurate, the return frequency should be higher than 900hz.
The animal facts is in this are a perfect example of why this channel is the best on RUclips hahaha
I dont even know what to say except "this is sooo fucking awesome and interesting, thank you"
Love this channel soooo much!
Thank you, this rocks. I love your approach and enthusiasm.
I'm loving your channel more and more.....
Im all for more nature stuff, this was really interesting
That was pretty cool seeing the acoustics of the bat eating
that was the coolest thing i ever saw on the internet. wow
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make!
(Also, what a nice shout out to Star Gazers)
This video was everything I needed
Beautiful! Bats along side felines and raptors are my favorite animals.
Than you.
I loved that Debussy version dude!
8:05
I've heard these sounds every night this summer. I thought they were birds! And I asked myself (after my husband who is native to this rural area), "What kind of birds do you guys know of that do this at night? Sounds like some kind of songbirds! Crazy!", My son thought this odd low to high pitch scream was some kind of bird. I now believe it's a bat. Or a Coyote of some kind. Not sure yet. But seems logical in these northern parts of the Appalachians of SE Ohio Valley. But my husband who has lived here all his life says he's never heard a sound like that. If it's not a bat then what is it?
4:57 yeah, this is amazing
Such a rad video. Bats are awesome!
Thank you for this! It was highly educational and it's fun to see you such in awe and so happy. ;0) I agree with Elia Lehman, i'd love to see you do more of those. ;0) Thanks again and keep it up! Would love to support you on Patreon. ♡
P.S. : Saw a documentary on sperm whales yesterday, they have the same technic to get their prey using sonar, when they get closer to them, their ''clicks'' get faster but they also completely paralyse them. I wonder if bats also paralyse their prey with their final ''screams of death''?
So freaking cool. Your videos are some of the best I've ever seen. I mean, your music's cool too I guess ;) haha
Well, now there's ANOTHER kind of microphone I wasn't aware of that I want to play with.
This actually seems far more interesting than either hydrophones or geophones to me, which are both on my list of "that would be cool, but not so cool as to make me want to pay for one".
It's not really that often I saw orcas in the fjords here, I don't have a boat, and... ok, I may have digressed.
Thanks for the bat facts - I must do some research on ultrasonic microphones now.
Absolutely fascinating. Thankyou
Astounding video. No Batman jokes. Kudos! ;)
I came about this channel trying to figure out a sound we have been heating out in our woods up in SE Ohio Valley. It sounds like something making a low to high-pitched yell/screech with each breath. Because you can hear the exhale of its breath at the end of the higher pitch. Starts off low and goes to a higher pitch and quickly halts at the end. We've only been heating it at night though. Usually close to deep dusk this summer. But started last month in June. We really wanna know because whatever it is, it will sound on one side of the woods and then be immediately on the other side within seconds. And it moves so quickly though. To be honest it sounds like either a mating call or a distress call. My son thought maybe it was some sort of bird. But there's no birds that make that sound. Especially at night. They'd be drawing attention to themselves and a predator would definitely end their loud nonsense.
Late to the game but I really enjoyed this one.
thoroughly enjoyed this bat adventure!
Daaamn son pro audio world needs dark mode bad, burning my retina's here
Mindblowing and amazing material though! Thanks for bringing me these video's!
This was very interesting! Cool video.
One thing i found interesting is when you said that the echo disappeared, it didnt completely, only the higher freqiency content, which would seem to make sense based on the higher directionality of higher pitches, so the bat might get some idea of direction based on how it sounds? Calls are projected forwards, so lower sounding echoes come from behind?
The whole world: SCREW BATS THEY CAUSE DISEASES!
Benn: I LOVE BATS!!
Firmly on your team though. They are very interesting. Even though they are full of diseases (their immune system is INSANE! look it up :D).
Fascinating stuff
Bats are so cute and cool, great video!
Another great vid!
This should have been an hour, sold to National Geographic. Amazing, I mean amazing job. Interested in their frog recorders...more my speed I think 😉