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Stigbob

Stigbob
Bob Lighthouse said:
This lab is right by my house and I was at this dissertation defense.
Fascinating material.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17460618


Some of the stuff that came out during the q&a session was really cool.

One analogy they used was that data wise, the US Navy's best sonar is equivalent to AM radio, whereas Kina's echolocation is like broadband internet.
They insisted this was not hyperbole.
It was a Navy research animal after all, they should know.
This is her "retirement" job.

Being that the bay is very noisy (we have these super-noisy, clicking shrimp here) her (Kina, the whale) hearing deteriorated over the years.
What they found was she somehow accounted for this by lowering the pitch for the entire range she used.
As the hearing loss was all in the upper register, she maintained the same amount of range/data capability.

Some of the aluminum test cylinders they used cannot be distinguished by human eye or hand.
They use a micrometer!




Acoustics of clicking shrimp here:
http://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.415805

Dr Kloepper's work:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IFXytWsAAAAJ&hl=en
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That's amazing I'll read it properly when sober, I have bats in my house and their echolocation is astounding they do loops round you if you get in their way. They also poo on my tools.

(more squidtalk) Mrs Stigbob got me membership of the Natural History Museum as a present a few ago, and as members we got to visit the Darwin rooms were they keep the pickled stuff. I was lucky enough to see the pickled architeuthis (giant squid) they have in a purpose built tank there about 20 feet long IIRC, if I can find a photo without faces I'll upload it.
 

Bob Lighthouse

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Bob Lighthouse
Dr Kloepper went on to a post-doc at Brown to study bats, and is still studying them if I'm not mistaken.
Probably something on her citation list there.


Wrt cephalopods, I grew up hunting and eating those things.
They are very tough, smart and wily, and delicious.

While I was in school we had an octopus in a lab, that crawled out of its tank, across a room, into another tank, absconded with a slipper lobster, and ate it back in its own tank.

The thought of a giant one makes me cringe.
 

Stigbob

Stigbob
Bob Lighthouse said:
Dr Kloepper went on to a post-doc at Brown to study bats, and is still studying them if I'm not mistaken.
Probably something on her citation list there.


Wrt cephalopods, I grew up hunting and eating those things.
They are very tough, smart and wily, and delicious.

While I was in school we had an octopus in a lab, that crawled out of its tank, across a room, into another tank, absconded with a slipper lobster, and ate it back in its own tank.

The thought of a giant one makes me cringe.
Click to expand...

Amazing beasties, it came from beneath the sea is a classic.

[video=youtube;0nmOjIUR9kA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nmOjIUR9kA[/video]
 

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Careful Op. I've had a thread here locked for being off-topic.
 
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