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bat detector
noun
A device that helps to identify the presence of bats by converting their echolocation ultrasound signals to audible frequencies.
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So Dr. Hare borrowed a bat detector, a device that makes ultrasonic sounds audible.
To find out more about them, buy a bat detector (see useful equipment box, below).
The Bat Conservation Trust provides a bat detector information pack and a guide to choosing digital recorders.
The bat detector haphazardly taped to the top of one of Deller's three cameras makes a frantic squelching noise.
"Based on dead bats we find and my bat detector, we're trying to identify whatever we can," Dr. Lim said.
You need a bat detector to hear them – it slows down the sound so the human ear can hear it.
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Sampling was undertaken by using harp traps and ultrasonic bat detectors.
The low-level echolocation sounds these "whispering bats" emit makes them extremely hard to pick up on bat detectors.
Bat detectors make audible their location-calls as the bats swoop past to check out their observers.
Most officially organised night hikes will bring along bat detectors so that you can pick up their ultrasound echo.
The participants live throughout Europe and will use bat detectors to record the ultrasonic calls of bats.
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