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Sep. 07, 2012
Tour a Bat Cave
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Bat biologist Nickolay Hristov, of UNC’s Center for Design Innovation and Winston-Salem State University, develops new techniques for filming and visualizing bats and the caves they occupy. Some of the tools in his kit include a long-range laser scanner -- for modelling bat cave morphology -- and portable thermal cameras -- to capture bat-life when the lights are off.
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