Bats Blast Blocking Beams to Prevent Other Bats from Biting Bugs

First, alliteration win.

Second, bats are awesome. They are the acoustic equivalent of flying dolphins. In terms of bad-ass acoustic ecology (because that's a thing), they are definitely at the top of the heap. As I'm sure most of you know, bats use echolocation to find their prey. They emit short chirps that bounce off solid objects and come back to their ears. Using the time difference between when they produced the chirp and when they hear the echo, bats are able to tell how far away their food is.

PAMGuard Tutorial-Down-sample Files

Once in a while you might want to downsample your data.

Because sometimes, there's just too much.

And your computer gets swamped.

And your hard-drive fills up.

And your processor slows down.

And then you get a headache from screaming at the computer.

And your office mates kick you out.

Then you move into a van, down by the river....