| OOZ proposes two distinct interfaces to the bats, to facilitate interaction in their two distinct periods of activity. At night the bats rely on echolocation; however during the day while roosting they use often quite audible communication and are highly social mammals. They can and will live in and manage high density situations (not unlike human mammals) and have many verbal and nonverbal communication strategies. It is fair to say that bats are the only other mammals that can form and sustain serious megametropolis (the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, Texas has a population of 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats, the largest urban bat population in North America, which annually draws an estimated 100,000 tourists and 8 million dollars in municipal revenue). Bats also share our tremendous dexterity, which seems to have an interesting relationship to language and cognitive ability. In fact, Bats join a peculiar grouping Parrots, Elephants, and Homo Sapiens in a syndrome that is defined by highly sociality, tremendous dexterity, small number of offspring that require high investment and relative longevity. We have a lot to discuss with bats. |
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