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Saw that Alan Alda PBS show last night & they had a piece on bats. Very smart animals -- aparently, they use radar. Anyway, a scientist on the show had a machine that slowed down the bat's ultrasonic calls to a pitch audible by humans -- and it turns out they sound just like Scratch Pet Land! Has anyone ever made a record using pitched bat sounds?

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Total opposit question, what's the animals whose calls don't echo?

Is it rabbits?

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 17:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

How is that possible? (sounds that don't reflect, that is).

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Just thinking aloud here:
If an animal followed a call immediately w/a call that had the opposite wave pattern of the first, wouldn't the two cancel ea. other out when the 'met' up, presumably at the spot where they would echo?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 17:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, it's nothing that complex--that animal's natural habitat is in an anechoic chamber.

― die9o (dhadis), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

That was my other guess

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 17:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's just a myth.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'll believe anything that duck tells me

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

even mallard fillmore?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Don't beleive Mallard Fillmore!

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 21:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

michael prime's "priory gardens/skeet hill" 7" (on povertech, i think) uses nothing but transduced bat sounds. it's not 'real' music, mainly bat sounds processed, but it fits the bill...

― your null fame (yournullfame), Thursday, 3 April 2003 00:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

For reasons best left unmentioned, I have recently become very enamored of "quacking" with a duck call device. Who doesn't love the quacking sound? You can make other sounds too, though, and it sounds a bit like some Indian double-reeded business.

Anyhow, I plan on incorporating duck-calls into my music and I encourage more people to do the same. Think of it as a tangential homage to "Molly's Lips"/"On a Plain".

― Okeigh, Monday, 27 February 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

you should put loads of dubby delay effects over it.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 27 February 2006 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link

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