What’s it like to be a bat? How do they see the world?

Tim and Syma talk to Yossi Yovel who is bringing together the disparate disciplines of ecology and neuroscience to help understand how animals see the world and communicate. Much of his work has focused on bats, who use echolocation to paint a picture of the world. But he also talks about the noises that plants make, and how moths and other insects use those noises. There is a whole cachophony of noises we pay no attention to that other animals use. Listen as Yossi tells us a little bit about what it is like to be a bat!

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Creators and Guests

Host

Syma Khalid

Professor of Computational Microbiology at University of Oxford

Host

Tim Coulson

Author of The Universal History of Us published by Penguin 2024 Professor of Zoology, University of Oxford EcologyEvolution, Existence, Science

Guest

Yossi Yovel

Prof. Yossi Yovel is a full Professor and the head of the lab of NeuroEcology in the School of Zoology and the head of the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. He received a B.Sc. degree in Biology and another one in physics both from Tel Aviv University, an M.Sc. in Neuroscience from Tel-Aviv University and a Ph.D. in Biology and Machine Learning from the University of Tuebingen, Germany. He then completed two post-docs: one in the Weizmann Institute and one in the University of Chicago before joining Tel-Aviv University Faculty in 2011. Prof. Yovel has authored more than 50 journal papers and presented dozens of invited talks.

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