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....

Mea Culpa-PAMGuard Whistle/Moan Detections to Raven Selection Tables

So, I did a bad-bad thing. No, not that kind of bad-bad thing and if it were I certainly wouldn't write about it on the internet.

Bioacoustics Blogger Did a Bad-Bad Thing:
not de-bugging code before releasing it unto the world

No, a few weeks ago I wrote a piece of code that took binary output from the PAMGuard whistle and moan detector and converted it to a selection table for Raven. I was pleased as punch that I had written this nifty piece of code and more so that I could share it with anybody else interested in converting outputs between these two platforms. So pleased was I, in fact, that I didn't remember to thoroughly check the code for bugs. Once I did, I found out it was wrong, not just a little wrong but wildly wrong.