45K views · 379 reactions | Scientists have used speech recognition software to decode bat vocalisations and work out which bats are communicating and what they’re ‘talking’ about | HORIZON: the EU Research & Innovation magazine | Facebook

61 reactions · 14 shares | Like and share if this is your summer sound. Do you think you know your bat sounds? Put that to the test with our quiz: https://buff.ly/3trDpQQ | Bat Conservation Trust | Facebook

🦇🌑 The sounds of the night🦇🌑 We use audio devices to identify bat species present across the landscape. Because we can’t hear the squeaks and squawks the bats use for echolocation, these devices pick up the sounds for us. We then run the sound through some nifty software that converts it into a frequency we can hear. The software also visualises and measures the sounds for us. Using these techniques, we can infer different things about the kind of bat that made that call. For example, slow-f