Anthropogenic noise is sound created by humans and we have similar uses of 'anthropogenic' lately in terms of 'anthropogenic light' which makes the city glow and it's so bright it's made it impossible to see stars. There's quite a bit of 'anthropogenic smell' since most animals probably have little preference for automobile exhausts, etc.
Noise is a problem if sound is the mechanism for your hunting so you will be a seriously hungry bat if you can't deal with it. Their mechanism is to switch to another method of hunting when 'anthropogenic noise' makes it difficult or impractical to use basic hearing. (Science Daily: Bats use second sense to hunt prey in noisy environments)
We're hardly the Bat Masters here in the Rockhouse but we love any creature which will eat up a whole lot of mosquitoes since we never heard of anyone being injured by a bat whereas mosquitos kill more humans via communicable diseases than anything else on the planet. Therefore we regard bats as our good friends and if you have any concerns about the Zika virus (i.e. you should) then maybe putting up a bat house near your pad wouldn't be such a bad idea.
There's a puzzle in the Science Daily article since, as above, we're not Bat Masters and we thought bats always used echolocation to find their prey. That dim understanding was regarding how they find prey in the dark, that they're basically flying radar units.
However, the article says they use their normal hearing until there's too much 'anthropogenic noise' and then they switch to echolocation instead. The interested student is invited to pursue further how that works but our primary interest is in the way bats eat lots and lots of skeeters. Whatever encourages skeeter-eatin' is a fine thing.
As kind of a side note, you're probably aware of the increasing number of Zika infections by mosquitos in Florida but your reaction may not have been so good. Instead of building bat houses in Florida, many reacted by saying, "Take the Mormons instead of us. No-one likes them anyway and that's why we keep them in Utah."
Apparently the Zika mosquitos listened because they have turned up in Utah now. There's nothing particularly funny in that since Zika will really mess you up in horrible ways but it's twisted to see the circumstance. The answer is still the same: build bat houses.
People often regard birds as so beautiful and so wonderful to behold yet bats rarely get such regard. However, we see only one of these creatures will bomb you with excrement while you sunbathe at the beach. Yep, seagulls will do that but bats don't and seagulls do zip about Zika.
We therefore rest our case that bats are our friends.
Noise is a problem if sound is the mechanism for your hunting so you will be a seriously hungry bat if you can't deal with it. Their mechanism is to switch to another method of hunting when 'anthropogenic noise' makes it difficult or impractical to use basic hearing. (Science Daily: Bats use second sense to hunt prey in noisy environments)
We're hardly the Bat Masters here in the Rockhouse but we love any creature which will eat up a whole lot of mosquitoes since we never heard of anyone being injured by a bat whereas mosquitos kill more humans via communicable diseases than anything else on the planet. Therefore we regard bats as our good friends and if you have any concerns about the Zika virus (i.e. you should) then maybe putting up a bat house near your pad wouldn't be such a bad idea.
There's a puzzle in the Science Daily article since, as above, we're not Bat Masters and we thought bats always used echolocation to find their prey. That dim understanding was regarding how they find prey in the dark, that they're basically flying radar units.
However, the article says they use their normal hearing until there's too much 'anthropogenic noise' and then they switch to echolocation instead. The interested student is invited to pursue further how that works but our primary interest is in the way bats eat lots and lots of skeeters. Whatever encourages skeeter-eatin' is a fine thing.
As kind of a side note, you're probably aware of the increasing number of Zika infections by mosquitos in Florida but your reaction may not have been so good. Instead of building bat houses in Florida, many reacted by saying, "Take the Mormons instead of us. No-one likes them anyway and that's why we keep them in Utah."
Apparently the Zika mosquitos listened because they have turned up in Utah now. There's nothing particularly funny in that since Zika will really mess you up in horrible ways but it's twisted to see the circumstance. The answer is still the same: build bat houses.
People often regard birds as so beautiful and so wonderful to behold yet bats rarely get such regard. However, we see only one of these creatures will bomb you with excrement while you sunbathe at the beach. Yep, seagulls will do that but bats don't and seagulls do zip about Zika.
We therefore rest our case that bats are our friends.
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