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High Speed Camera Shows How Bats Land Upside Down

submitted by jimnms

1 decade 5 years 8 months 1 week ago

In a species that hangs from trees branches, the bats use a very different technique. They swoop in without a cartwheel, and bring both feet and both hands upward to grab onto the tree. And they hit the tree hard. The cave bats land with a force that’s twice their body weight; the tree bats generate forces as high as eleven times their body weight. - Discover Magazine

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

11 Comments

While you're here check out the other video: High Speed Camera Shows Bats Can Hover Like Humming Birds.

*cute!

Adding video to channels (Cute) - requested by djsunkid.

Crunchy says...

It's amazing that these small creatures were once crooked angles that lost the war against everything that is pure and holy and are now doomed to sleep upside down.

9.5

The landing is almost totally obscured...

ForgedReality says...

I want one as a pet! Just to fuck with him, I'd put all the hangy-grates on the floor, causing him to fly upside down!

It's a high speed slow motion infestation in here..

Cute? Eye of the beholder, I suppose.

dystopianfuturetoday

It's just like Batman, except for that it's a bat. Batmanbat, Batmanbat, does whatever a Batmanbat does....

ElessarJD says...

Shikaka!

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