Talking Bat with Nils Bouillard (Big Bat Year)

In which we talk about bat caves, viruses, Age of Ultron, cell phone laws, etc.

Here we have the pleasure of Talking Bat with Sue Swift, the first person in the UK to carry out a Phd on bats. We talk about: some of her early research working with Prof Paul Racey (Aberdeen University); the work she did on timber treatment chemicals; foraging behaviour of Natterer's & Bechstein's bats; authoring the species monologue 'Long-eared Bats'; Rabies research; heated bat box research, and bat dropping analysis. And of course we also speak about her receiving the Bat Conservation Trust's 'Pete Guest Award' in 2009. 

Our very first Talking Bat interview took place in June 2020 with Dean Thompson (CEO of Titley Scientific). During the interview we cover the history of Titley Scientific, along with Dean's background. We also talk in some depth about the bat detectors and software that Titley provide around the world ^o^. To find out more about Titley Scientific go to https://www.titley-scientific.com/uk/  

Excellent interview with Dr Volker Runkel talking about his early research, setting up the business ecoObs (including products & services available), as well as us getting into some depth about the challenges of species ID when working with bat acoustic data. Visit ecoObs website here The book - Handbook of Acoustic Bat Detection - find out more here