Bats Take Flight
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You’d think that bats and birds fly in similar ways-in fact, many scientists used to consider bat flight a minor variation of bird flight. But, with the aid of high-speed video, researchers have discovered that bat flight is much more complex than initially thought.
Produced by Luke Groskin
Music by Audio Network
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Provided by Kenny Breuer and Sharon Swartz Joe Bahlman, Atilla Bergou, David Boerma, Rhea von Busse, Jorn Cheney, Nick Hristov, Tatjana Hubel, Nicolai Konow, Lauren Reimnitz, Andrea Rummel, Cosima Schunk, Dave Willis, Dan Riskin, Hamid Vejdani.
Bat Research supported by NSF, AFOSR and Brown University
All procedures involving animals were performed in an AAALAC-accredited facility in accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and approved by the Brown University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. - Věda a technologie
How can you not fall in love with that face at the beginning?!?!
Yeah, so cute, let me eat that foot.
Yeah, until it gives you the COVID.
because of the face here: 6:00
@@sembat7852 ahahaha
They are very cute.
Those first couple of seconds was precious
Oh my GOD bats do little pushups into the air to get off the ground. XD That's AMAZING.
that's a quad launch
It's also how pterosaurs took off. Bird's have to use their wings to lift themselves off the ground, which is why bird's have never and can never be as big as pterosaurs. Bats on the other hand.. All bats have to do is get bigger than birds of prey, and they will have room to evolve into plane sized superbats
@@NoBaconForYou actually birds also jump and starts to fly
@@mgarcia Actually ,the hind legs don't add much ,if any, energy to the launch.
Bats have little strength in their legs ,the muscles have been reduced to save weight.
Maybe birds can't reach the sizes ptesosaurs did, because they are locked in their theropod bodyplan. They have to grow very muscular legs to jump into the air, the bigger they get. Bats use all four to launch themselves into the air and by doing so, benefit from their armmusculature, which they have for flight anyway, much more than Birds can.
Giraffe sized azhdarchids once taking off like bats must have been majestic
Awesome!
I hope that artists and animators use this research for things like dragons and demons in movies, games and so on
And can't wait to see the applications of this knowledge in technology
aleix1203 fesco made a functional flying bat
I've seen some robots
I wonder if this can be applied to daily life technology somehow
That is exactly why I was watching this video! I'm a little confused as to how the mechanics work, though. Because, to me, it looks like the way the bat flaps its wings it should be pushing the bat backwards...obviously I'm missing something.
Yes absolutely beautiful video. I just love the blending of art, science, and engineering. I'm doing dragon art and animation myself and these videos are useful. Is there any more research material I can study on.... ie.: more animation videos, and more kinematics/dynamics studies on bats? Thanks! Keep up the good work!
I'd like to see this kind of work done with azhdarchids
Amazing footage! I would like to see an in-depth comparison between the flight strategies of birds, bats, the many and various insects, and even reconstructed pterosaurs! I think this subject deserves way more attention than it receives!
For the last few weeks, I have been going out at dusk each evening to observe bats. I stand in my driveway and am absolutely amazed by them! Sometimes, they will dive and come within inches of my head. I'm never concerned because I know that they are extremely skilled flyers. The most amazing thing is, they are not flying by sight but by sonar! The variety of bat that I am seeing is only about the size of a sparrow.
little brown bat
They do have sonar but they're not blind they still uses eyesight
Dude, you should try and avoid bats, most bats are asymptomatic carriers for rabies and you usually dont notice when you get bit by them.
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Watching the bats push off with their arms for take-off from the ground (similar to how pterosaurs are theorized to have done) makes me wonder why we've never had bats the size of pterosaurs?
We do have bats the size of pterosaurs! Pterosaurs varied in size, but if you mean big - we have big bats!
Bat bones, like mammal bones, are a great deal heavier than bird bones and pterosaur bones (which are somewhat hollow). Pterosaurs also had air sacs which allow them to both better breathe and stay airborne.
This is amazing! Bats are incredible creatures!
Wow, so interesting that the skin in the batwing actually contracts with muscle cells with each flap. That must be one of the secrets how the can fly so silently. Even with extreme turns one meter away, I cannot hear any flight noise from my local bats.
Bat flight is incredible. One questions why they can't outcompete birds and diversify from their "nocturnal-flying-animal" niche into incredible diurnal forms.
Heavier bones probably
I look forward to seeing some of this research pan out in the next Bat-man movie.
PMSFL you do of course realise that Batman can't really fly right? He just uses the big cape to "glide"?
Yup, if they would ever have Kirk Langstrom as one of the villains, that would be great!!!
Fascinating...and adorable
Thank you so much for this video! I’m a developing game artist who is extremely into flight and the mechanics behind it. I want to create games with flinging creatures and being able to see how a creature like a bat flies in reality. I see so many games where the flights of let’s say a dragon, just feels so fake or the hovering just doesn’t feel natural. When I create my own game I want everything to feel as though it is real. I really appreciate the work that you guys are doing here
I can't believe people associate bats with spooky stuff like vampires. Sure they carry live in caves, only come out at night, carry diseases (which they are immune to so we could study them to become immune ourselves), drink blood (they rarely bite humans) , and are all black and bony but just look at them. They're so cute, I just want to cuddle it. And when they cling to stuff it looks like they're hugging it. Aawww.
only three bat species drink blood. all others eat insects or fruit
Was just watching about giant pterosaurs, and seeing how bats fly makes them so much more interesting
Absolutely fascinating. I never realized that their wings are attached almost to their “ankles”. I wondered if that difference had any significance but I guess not because you didn’t even acknowledge it.
One of your best videos! Excellent editing and camera work! Thanks!!
Amazing video, thanks, SciFri
this vid deserves waaay more views
This research is outstanding. I look forward to utilize the science behind bat's flight in the combination of design and technology. Thanks for sharing.
Love this video, great footage! Bats are neat!
if they didnt have wings they would look like hamster with long arms
2:44 he tiny, but he ripped
But that is how our knowledge builds up, tiny fact by tiny fact, into vast volumes of data. It's remarkable, really, how just being able to store information has made so much of a difference.
Science is really just a series of observations. We are very clever.
I love bats, I have rescued two sets of baby bats that the homeowners blew out of their roof vents at the end of their houses. I took them back to my house with some of the older bats and they moved right in and my amount of mosquito bites went down a bunch.
You 2 are such a blessing to this great earth, AWESOME JOB, GOD BLESS.
Thanks to these little guys to teach us so much , they are incredible .
Amazing work!
Great video. Such awesome animals. Thank you
Absolutely awesome video.
This are the kind of people who need more funding. Even some who hates science would be glued to this.
These flying mammals can be stars of a Halloween vampire movie
thanku guys so much
the take offs are amazing and very interesting for palentologists studing pterodactyls, I guess!
Next art project: Bats - thanks for uploading this!
Wooòow amazing close view for bats kinematic in flying 👍👍, thanks for sharing the video
Amazing! Wonderful animals!
Thank you for this excellent resource for an art student
I love bats 💖 flying puppers 🤩 !
Amazingly interesting video!
That is astounding. Compared to birds it seems erratic but really they are the acrobats. Amazing!
...if only pterosaurs still exist
they're reptiles nigga, bats are mammals.
If they did then I would risk trying to befriend one so I can ride it XDD
@@beckyfrancis8232 thatd probably only work with the huge ones, and those would proabbly be the most dangerous
@@GreenAgoutiactually it wouldn’t work at all, even the big ones wouldn’t be able to hold or pick up a human.
They could still eat you tho if they wanted too
This is super cool
That launch @2:37!
Ikr, I thought because their keels were small they didn't have the strength to takeoff from the ground!
@@tootbender6935 I am not an expert, but I believe that bat to be a vampire bat, which is one of the only 2 specie of but that can walk, and also jump, so yeah very few bats can do that i think.
That vault is similar to the way that pterosaurs would have taken off from the ground
What an amazing creature! I really amazed by its elaborate form. And the another thing is, nature carrying all of these variations of performing of same tasks is probably the most attractive thing about evolutional progress.
Are they more silent in flight than an owl....
2:40 I thought bats could not fly from the ground. They first have to drop a few feet in order to attain enough lift.
Depends on the species!!
It depends and I don't think it's a matter of needing to drop a few feet as much as needing the necessary airspace to start flapping.
@@teaartist6455 the megabats, ie fruit bats or “flying foxes”, need enough drop to generate lift, so they do need enough air to flap, and for the air to get under their open wings. The microbats probably need much less, or any drop because they’re so small and light. They’re all absolutely amazing!!! 🙂
I've been watching the bat rescue and apparently some individual megabats (mainly young, strong males) do manage to start from the ground!
Best explain.thank you
Hey I'm trying to get ahold of a bat specialist, does anyone know a way for me to get connected with them?
2:37 can any tell me what kind of bat is that? sine most bats can't fly directly from the ground, right?
I still don’t think they look as graceful as a bird in flight. Look at how a hawk glides, hovers and dives. Look at how a humming bird can stay almost stationary while it feeds.
Bats can do all of that actually. I think the only thing they can’t do is soar, which is gliding upwards on warm air columns. Probably what you meant when you mentioned hawks gliding. And the fastest bat can fly up to 100 miles per hour horizontally.
what the name of this bat ?
A job I never knew I wanted until now...
Welp I still got 6 years of school to go :(
2:36 i never knew they used therye arms to take off
plz do fn+f3
pretty cool
Interesting. Thanks.
THANKS. appreciate the batty info
Megabats Microbats I love your profile picture and your name
May I recommend the CZcams channel Megabattie (a bat 🦇 rescuer shows what it takes to get injured bats back to the wild)
(Be prepared for cuteness overload)
@@emeraldqueen1994 thanks.
I am aware. Meg rescues in new south wales and I am queensland.
FASCINATING 😳🥰👌💕
What bat sp are they using in the tests?
looks like a flying fox and other fruit bats
I'm actually watching this video because I'm studying how a vampire flies while in bat form.
That bats back muscle is rip
I've learnt so much
« So what is it you do then? »
« Oh you know. Shooting lasers at bats on a treadmill. »
So at the end she said, FIRST!
Mesmerizing masters of flight by echolocation, the Bat.
Wow
I would think a bat is more like a flying parachute with more control of the flex in the fabric of the shute
I love bats so much. They remind me of tiny dragons
Did all the computers you use for this evolve, or were they CREATED? What have you ever seen evolve? Put your thinking caps on...
bats jump with their arms lmao
0:00-0:02 we all said awwww
0:11 0:18 0:34 4:03
would ya look at that I learned something :)
Wowwww
Experiment if a bite from a vampire bat can turn you into an actual vampire
plz
2:36
BATS ARE COOL!!!!
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There is a bat flying around inside my house right now. I don’t like it.
Great video...but the title does not deliver what is promised...HOW do bats take flight, literally. There are just two brief shots of bats taking off. Also, there is almost no actual science here...what are the discoveries these two have made about bats and flight? In this long form free media delivery site, including some of the meat of the science is possible and desirable.
Unfairly and terribly demonized in film and books, these beautiful mammals are a keystone species for pollination and seed distribution. Bats are wonderful mums, keeping their babies and young ones cleaned and tucked under a wing And they have personalities. If you look at a bats outstretched wing it is like the human arm, a humerus, a radius, carpals, metacarpals, with webbing--the evolutionary design to survive, bats cannot battle other creatures, the teeth are designed to feed on fruit and nector, insects--even breaking through a hard shell on an insect, set so they can use their tongues to lap nectar. A bat on the ground is not sick, the bat may be injured, but bats cannot fly off the ground, they cannot life off, the drop into flight. If you see a bat on the ground cover with a box to protect and call a wildlife rescue, if you see a bat trapped, call wildlife rescue.
They are like rats but with wings...
thats basically what it is
kjges
I'm proud to be a mammal. Mammal flight is way better than bird flight.
Thank god they're small...
let's just start a new global pandemic and eat it Lol
Do you think this is how a dragon's wings work
I've said this once I'll say this again:
Dragon.
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Flying humans
Viruses all over the place.
*COVID-19*
shut your dumbass up. covid-19 was traced to horseshoe bats in china. simply a single animal where the virus mutated. not even a small portion of bats carry the virus, it was simply one animal, or a small group of animals, that carried the virus.
@T3rrorToff33 I didn’t know that, Why you got to be so rude.
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@@ostr1ch303 if you don't know that maybe don't comment shit you don't know anything about
Did they put markers on the bat's skin? Why do scientists always have to hurt animals when they want to study them?
Is there any other way though? also, I don't think it will hurt that much
flying mouse
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This is absolutely amazing but to think this came about by evolution i think is just illogical
Evolution is messy, so not that illogical.