Spotted Bat

Spotted bat

NPS

• Spotted Bat

  
  

  Spotted Bats are one of the few bat species whose calls can be heard by the human ear. This sound was recorded at Yosemite National Park in California.

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  NPS

  Date created:

  06/25/2018

  Audio Transcript

  High pitched rythmic chirps of a spotted bat.

Spectrogram of a spotted bat. Spectrograms are graphs that visualize sounds. The brightness of the colors shows sounds’ amplitude (loudness) across different frequencies (pitches), shown from bottom to top, and over time, from left to right. This spectrogram visualizes the bat's very high-pitched chirp.

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