The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal - Hardcover

A bat researcher reveals the sensory superpowers of Earth's only flying mammals. Echolocation, navigation, and what bats can do that we can't even imagine.

Bats have haunted human imagination since we could tell stories. We're terrified of them. But if you spend time with a researcher studying them, you find out they're solving problems we haven't even found elegant words for yet. Echolocation is sonar, but also something more complex. Bats navigate through walls and obstacles in complete darkness with a precision we only achieved with instruments.

Ecology and biology faculty assign this when teaching about sensory diversity and adaptation. It's also read by people who want to understand why some animals are so alien to us and yet so remarkable. A gift to anyone working in neuroscience or animal behavior who wants to expand their sense of what's possible.

DETAILS
- Hardcover
- Mammalogy, echolocation, animal behavior, sensory biology