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High Speed Camera Shows Bats Can Hover Like Humming Birds

submitted by jimnms

1 decade 5 years 9 months 1 week ago

Bats fly more slowly than birds, but they maneuver more effectively. Bats fly cheap compared to birds. A hovering bat use 60% less energy than a hovering hummingbird. - Discover Magazine

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/

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While you're here, check out the other video: High Speed Camera Shows How Bats Land Upside Down.

Could someone smarter than me, or with more time than I have, compute the beats per minute of the wings based of camera frame rate and the pulsing of a fluorescent tube at 60 Hz? Thanks in advance.

I counted about 60 flashes in 17 seconds of video. That's 1 second. I counted 10 flaps in the same amount of time. So about 10 flaps a second?

Go mammals!

Hard to believe that these mammals have *wings.

It looks like there's about 4 flashes per flap which comes out to 15 flaps per second.

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