Comments on: How To Be A Bat [Life in Motion] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Chapter 11 – Functional Anatomy of Support and Locomotion | Vertebrate Form and Function – BIOL2706 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10508 Chapter 11 – Functional Anatomy of Support and Locomotion | Vertebrate Form and Function – BIOL2706 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:32:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10508 [...] Videos from class: Smoke in a wind tunnel Gliding frogs Gliding reptiles Gliding colugo Bat flight [...] [...] Videos from class: Smoke in a wind tunnel Gliding frogs Gliding reptiles Gliding colugo Bat flight [...]

]]> By: Vortices behind a bat wing | nOnoScience http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10507 Vortices behind a bat wing | nOnoScience Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:19:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10507 [...] put it mildly, the flow is complex for such heuristic predictions. Quoting from Carl Zimmer’s excellent post on this topic: The shoulder of a bat starts rotating upwards before the wrist, which move up before [...] [...] put it mildly, the flow is complex for such heuristic predictions. Quoting from Carl Zimmer’s excellent post on this topic: The shoulder of a bat starts rotating upwards before the wrist, which move up before [...]

]]> By: Bat Boxes http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10506 Bat Boxes Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:06:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10506 Great post Carl, thanks for posting! :) This post is really interesting to me, before I wasn't too familar with bats and didn't know what they did for us humans or the enviroment, but now I do since I have had to research and write articles on them for a project. I love to learn and read about them now.. Other people that have commented, as well as yourself, have touched on some interesting points. From my own observation and research I can see that bats fly all over the place because they have very poor vision, and obviously walking is no exception. Blind people use a stick or a golden retriever to assist them whereas bats are only able to really on themselves and the systems and lifestyles they have developed, and with ridiculously large wings for their body they are going to look even more like they are swimming rather than flying. Different bat species develop in different ways, that's the reason they walk differently and fly differently. I believe they are stable in their own right, however they may appear to be unstable when moving from place to place. Great post Carl, thanks for posting! :)

This post is really interesting to me, before I wasn’t too familar with bats and didn’t know what they did for us humans or the enviroment, but now I do since I have had to research and write articles on them for a project. I love to learn and read about them now..

Other people that have commented, as well as yourself, have touched on some interesting points. From my own observation and research I can see that bats fly all over the place because they have very poor vision, and obviously walking is no exception. Blind people use a stick or a golden retriever to assist them whereas bats are only able to really on themselves and the systems and lifestyles they have developed, and with ridiculously large wings for their body they are going to look even more like they are swimming rather than flying.

Different bat species develop in different ways, that’s the reason they walk differently and fly differently. I believe they are stable in their own right, however they may appear to be unstable when moving from place to place.

]]> By: Bats & Books! | Share the Joy of Books! Cincinnati Book Festival http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10505 Bats & Books! | Share the Joy of Books! Cincinnati Book Festival Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:25:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10505 [...] Through studying this and other videos of bats flying, it was found that hovering bats use 60% less energy than a hummingbird performing the same action. You can see more videos made by the researchers and read about the crazy weird stuff they learned in Discover Magazine’s article How To Be A Bat. [...] [...] Through studying this and other videos of bats flying, it was found that hovering bats use 60% less energy than a hummingbird performing the same action. You can see more videos made by the researchers and read about the crazy weird stuff they learned in Discover Magazine’s article How To Be A Bat. [...]

]]> By: Vortices behind a bat wing | Unruled Notebook http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10504 Vortices behind a bat wing | Unruled Notebook Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:32:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10504 [...] put it mildly, the flow is complex for such heuristic predictions. Quoting from Carl Zimmer’s excellent post on this topic: The shoulder of a bat starts rotating upwards before the wrist, which move up before [...] [...] put it mildly, the flow is complex for such heuristic predictions. Quoting from Carl Zimmer’s excellent post on this topic: The shoulder of a bat starts rotating upwards before the wrist, which move up before [...]

]]> By: Spiderman’s Bats | The Loom | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10503 Spiderman’s Bats | The Loom | Discover Magazine Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:32:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10503 [...] spring I blogged about some marvelous videos made by scientists at Brown University in their quest to understand how bats manage to be bats. [...] [...] spring I blogged about some marvelous videos made by scientists at Brown University in their quest to understand how bats manage to be bats. [...]

]]> By: Green vs. Green: Judge Halts Wind Project to Protect Rare Bats | 80beats | U Reader | Your daily news stop station ... http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10502 Green vs. Green: Judge Halts Wind Project to Protect Rare Bats | 80beats | U Reader | Your daily news stop station ... Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:33:06 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10502 [...] Clash Over the Mojave Desert Discoblog: Are Wind Turbines Killing Innocent Goats? The Loom: How to Be a Bat (with [...] [...] Clash Over the Mojave Desert Discoblog: Are Wind Turbines Killing Innocent Goats? The Loom: How to Be a Bat (with [...]

]]> By: Oral from the masters of aural « Slightly Harmless http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10501 Oral from the masters of aural « Slightly Harmless Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:59:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10501 [...] the cacophony of sounds emitted by thousands of other bats around them. Some drink blood. They can hover, do precise landings, and some of them can even [...] [...] the cacophony of sounds emitted by thousands of other bats around them. Some drink blood. They can hover, do precise landings, and some of them can even [...]

]]> By: Meg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10500 Meg Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:40:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10500 Awesome! Check out my bat photos they are feeding at a hummingbird feeder http://www.blogster.com/margar3t/the-amazing-phyllostomidae and on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/28442735@N03/sets/72157622357221172/ Hope you don't mind I put a link to this page on my bat blog post. Wonderful video! Awesome! Check out my bat photos they are feeding at a hummingbird feeder
http://www.blogster.com/margar3t/the-amazing-phyllostomidae and on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/28442735@N03/sets/72157622357221172/

Hope you don’t mind I put a link to this page on my bat blog post. Wonderful video!

]]> By: william b. keith http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10499 william b. keith Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:34:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/#comment-10499 All bats don't have rabies. Some bats do. I love bats. There is a Red Bat that roosts in a big Sycamore tree in my neighbor's yard. I see it almost every night between 8:30 PM and 9:00 PM. It arrives in April and usually it has a couple of young about the first day of June that are adult size by July. I still see it until about October then it leaves. I see one again the next April. There are Yellow Bats in the palm trees in the Heights and other places in downtown Houston. There are thousands of Freetail Bats under a bridge on Waugh Drive going over Buffalo Bayou. I have observed and caught Evening Bats near Bush Intercontinental Airport. I have caught all the above kinds of bats. All bats don’t have rabies. Some bats do.

I love bats. There is a Red Bat that roosts in a big Sycamore tree in my neighbor’s yard. I see it almost every night between 8:30 PM and 9:00 PM.

It arrives in April and usually it has a couple of young about the first day of June that are adult size by July. I still see it until about October then it leaves. I see one again the next April.

There are Yellow Bats in the palm trees in the Heights and other places in downtown Houston.

There are thousands of Freetail Bats under a bridge on Waugh Drive going over Buffalo Bayou.

I have observed and caught Evening Bats near Bush Intercontinental Airport.

I have caught all the above kinds of bats.

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