TheBatBotLab🇺🇸

Laboratory dedicated to the study of #bat #biosonar from an #engineering perspective. Building #bioinspired bat #robots. #scicom sandbox

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Design of a coupled flapping & folding mechanism for a biomimetic flapping-flight bat robot. Video: Adam Carmody.

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Forest megafauna, avian edition 🌳🖤: Rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) disperses large seeds while looking like evolutionary excess🎯🍃. Photo: Tan Tc. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Tropical color overload 🎨🌴: Blue-winged pitta (Pitta moluccensis) packing structural blues, carotenoid reds, and zero restraint🐦🔥. Photo: Tan Tc. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Camouflage? Hardly 🌈👀: Bornean banded pitta (Hydrornis schwaneri) relies on dense understory, not subtlety, while probing soil for arthropods🪱🌿. Photo: Tan Tc. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Wetland multitasker 💼: White-breasted Waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus) balancing foraging, vigilance, and habitat engineering in one tidy stride 🧠🌾. Photo: Jason Bugay Reyes. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Social flock update✈️📢: Long-tailed parakeets (Psittacula longicauda) demonstrating cooperative movement and collective vigilance at cruising altitude👀🦜. Photo: Jason Bugay Reyes. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Migration focus🧠: Blue & white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana, ♀) fine‑tuned for seasonal travel and fast reflexes🗺️💨. Photo: Jason Bugay Reyes. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Life in the understory 🌿🐦: Red-breasted Partridge (Arborophila hyperythra) adult and chick move through leaf litter, relying on camouflage and close contact for protection🍂👀. Photo: Daniel Yong. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Aerial strategist✈️🐦: Crocker jungle flycatcher (Cyornis ruficauda) optimizes perch-to-prey trajectories with minimal energy expenditure🎯🪶. Photo: Daniel Yong. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Microhabitat specialist at work 🔬🍂: Eyebrowed wren-babbler (Napothera epilepidota) demonstrates leaf-litter foraging efficiency — cryptic plumage included🐛🟤. Photo: Daniel Yong. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Peeking politely👀💛: Common iora (Aegithina tiphia) showing off its bright carotenoid-fed plumage while scanning the canopy for insects🐛🌿. Photo: Lee. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Looking regal as always 👑🔵: the White‑throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) defends territories with loud, ringing calls that echo across wetlands🔔🌿. Photo: Lee. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Glider by night, hammock by day 🌙🌴: The Sunda flying lemur (Galeopterus variegatus) isn't a lemur and doesn't fly — but is the nearest living non‑primate relatives of humans🧬✨. Photo: Lee. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Mammals #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Night shift supervisor of the Palawan forest🌌🦉: Palawan Scops-Owl (Otus fuliginosus) relies on exceptional hearing and large eyes to detect prey in darkness🎧🌙. Photo: Shanmugavel Murugesan. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Tropical gemstone on a branch💎🌳: Blue Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone cyanescens), an endemic Palawan species whose brilliant blue plumage advertises a very confident male🐦🔵. Photo: Shanmugavel Murugesan. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Evolution spent millions of years perfecting this stare👁️👁️: Palawan frogmouth (Batrachostomus chaseni), a nocturnal bird whose wide gape is built for scooping flying insects mid-air🦗🌙. Photo: Shanmugavel Murugesan. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #WildlifePhotography

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When the "bee" in "bee-eater" is optional🐝🦎: Red-bearded bee-eater (Nyctyornis amictus) after intercepting a gliding flying lizard (Draco sp.) mid-canopy🌳🌿. Photo: Tan Tc. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Pastel assassin of the canopy🐦⚡: Banded broadbill (Eurylaimus javanicus), a specialist aerial sallier of tropical forest insects🌳🐜. Photo: Tan Tc. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Wide-mouth, zero hesitation😮🐜: Black-and-yellow broadbill (Eurylaimus ochromalus) demonstrating why the family Eurylaimidae evolved those enormous gape widths🎯🐦. Photo: Tan Tc. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Perch now, strike later 🎯🌳: Brown-winged kingfisher (Pelargopsis amauroptera) demonstrating classic sit-and-wait predation with kingfisher-grade binocular vision 👀🐟. Photo: Jason Bugay Reyes. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

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Camouflage but make it neon 🟡⚫: Bornean banded pitta (Hydrornis schwaneri) blending disruptive coloration with leaf-litter acrobatics in Sundaland understories 🌿🔬. Photo: Jason Bugay Reyes. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography