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outside the perimeter of the modern city of Beersheba, stands the
ancient site of Tel Sheba, the remains of a biblical administration
center/fortress dating back to the early Israelite period. It is
strategically situated, overlooking the confluence of the Beersheba and
Hebron Stream. The site was excavated in the 1970's, and it was
designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2005. The site contains the
remains of ancient walls, with parts of the gateway and an ancient well
at the entrance. Inside the fortifications, one sees the foundations of
the original residences, warehouses and a general layout of the former
town. Extremely interesting, and impressive, is the ancient subterranean
water system which was connected to the Hebron Stream and delivered
water inside the fortress via tunnels and cisterns, erstwhile concealed
on the outside to invading forces. Adjacent
to the tamarisk trees, beside the entry into the site, stands the
replica of an altar with the four horns, the original having been
discovered on the site. The ancient Tel Sheba is a site rich with
biblical references, especially associated with the wanderings of the
Patriarchs - the digging of the well by Abraham and his servants, the
sworn agreement with Avimelech, and confirmed by the planting of the
tamarisk tree - Genesis 21:22-33; the covenant with Isaac, renewing the
blessing God had made with Abraham, and sanctified by Isaac who built an
altar there - Genesis 46: 1-3; and the covenant with Jacob, and the
promise that God will accompany Jacob and his family down to Egypt and
redeem them as a great nation Genesis 46:1-3.One of the most
significant features of the site is an ancient well that lies just
outside the city gates, known as Abraham's Well, which is where,
according to tradition, Abraham made the oath with Abimeleh.Today Beersheba, the gateway and the modern capital of the
Negev, boasts a population of 250,000 citizens, of whom a large majority
are students studying at the various faculties of the Ben Gurion
University. The university has revived a city that belies an important
historical event that took place almost a hundred years ago on October
31, 1917. Only in recent years has the story come to light, and yet it
had the most profound effect of changing the direction and redefining
the boundaries of the modern Middle East.The
drama can be retold from the commanding location of Tel Sheba, and with
a compass and maps in hand, it is possible to determine the various
positions of the opposing forces. One can visualize the charge of the
Australian Light-Horse Brigade, valiantly racing across the plains of
Beersheba, as the late afternoon sun is wavering, and their desperate
mission to capture the wells of Beersheba before dark, or otherwise face
the grim prospect of retreat, returning through two days of blistering,
waterless desert to their nearest supply source.The failing
theater of war in Western Europe during World War I, and being trapped
in a bloody carnage of trench warfare, encouraged the British Command to
initiate an alternative Front, by attacking the German-Turkish Alliance
through the Middle East. History books memorialize the tragic and
unsuccessful Battle for Gallipoli (1915-16). Its disastrous consequences
for the British, Australian and New Zealand forces led to a change of
strategy, resulting in the re-deployment of forces in Egypt with the
intention of advancing through Palestine. However, two disastrous
battles fought by the British Palestine Expeditionary Force along the
Gaza coastline, thwarted their attempt to breach the German-Turkish
forces.Subsequently a change of command, with the promotion of
General Allenby, created a different quality of leadership. He employed a
ruse - using propaganda, whereby the enemy was misled to incorrectly
anticipate and reinforce their troops - leaving Beersheba exposed and
vulnerable. In the background to this smoldering situation, Lawrence of
Arabia was creating a groundswell of rebellion among the Arab tribes on
the eastern side of the Jordan River. There was a spy story, and a
tragic love-triangle that assisted the Expeditionary Forces to find
their way across the desert to Beersheba. While in London, the British
Parliament was promulgating the Balfour Declaration, for the
establishment of a Jewish homeland, and yet simultaneously, the same
British Parliament was deceptively promising part of the same territory
to Emir Hussein, offering an Arab Kingdom that extended across the
Arabian Peninsula to the Mediterranean Sea. Against this scenario of
conniving politics, calculated duplicity and empty promises, the British
and the French had conspired between themselves to divide the
Middle-East and formulate their own borders - in essence, the creation
of the modern Middle-East.If we return to the events unfolding
in the Battle of Beersheba, one recalls the capture of the strategic
mound of Tel Sheba - by the New Zealand forces - which had militarily
dominated the surrounding landscape and overlooked the plain below. This
success was followed by the dramatic 6 kilometer charge of the
Australian Light - Horse Brigade, across the plains towards the town of
Beersheba, the last great horse-cavalry charge in history. The
Australian force comprised of volunteer farmers from rural Australia -
chosen because they were all good horsemen - and later, their virtues
were immortalized in a poem by Banjo Paterson. The horsemen were
desperate to succeed before darkness, and capture Beersheba or face
forced retreat and defeat. With their bayonets waving - as they were not
a regular cavalry they did not carry sabers - and with that will to
decide the fate of the battle, they overran the German-Turkish positions
and trenches, among volleys of enemy artillery and rifle-fire. They
secured the wells of Beersheba and victory was theirs. As a result of
this breakthrough, the way to Jerusalem was opened. Six weeks later,
General Allenby entered Jerusalem and received the surrender of the city
- which heralded the change into the modern Middle East.Driving
through the modern city of Beersheba today, we pass the Commonwealth
Cemetery, where the graves of 1200 brave men recall that period of
history, and whose heroism brought about the fall of the Ottoman-Turkish
Empire (1530 - 1917), and led to the more favorable change of
administration under the British Mandate Period (1917- 48). It seems
providential that Beersheba, the site chosen by God to renew the
covenant with the patriarchs of Israel, would be the place in modern
history which was chosen again, and most influenced a causal chain of
events resulting in the eventual creation of a State.Touring Tel ShebaThere
are no regularly scheduled bus tours that currently include Beersheba
and Tel Sheba so options for touring these sites are limited to doing
them on your own by either public transportation or car rental, or by
hiring the services of a private guide for a day. Beersheba is
approximately a 70 minute car ride from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and both
cities offer regularly scheduled bus service to Beersheba, as follows:From
Tel Aviv: Take line 380 from Arlozorov Terminal, or line 370 from Tel
Aviv Central Bus Station. The trip takes about 1.5 hours.From Jerusalem: From central bus station - line 470; line 446, approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes.Train services runs hourly from Tel Aviv to Beersheba.Graeme Stone is a licensed Israeli tour guide and contributing expert on Travelujah. People can learn, plan and share their Holy Land tour and travel experiences on Travelujah. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Awkward moments between world leaders
Recent events have shown how personal international relations can get, with the news that President Barack Obama has canceled his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The cancelation is widely believed to stem from personal frustration between the two leaders.
It should come as no surprise that even something as important as international politics is subject to the same awkwardness as family get-togethers, with splits, insults and occasionally just awkward moments.
Here's a list of some awkward moments between world leaders.
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How could you miss the one in 1992 between George H. W. Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa? Never go to a State dinner and eat raw fish when you're feeling nauseated.
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Great piece. Would love to see "9 most awkward moments of presidential debates".
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Henry. At least he didn't disrespect the man. Rare these days.
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Liverpool target set to extend Dortmund deal
Japanese striker happy in Bundesliga
Liverpool target Shinji Kagawa is on the verge of signing a new deal at Borussia Dortmund despite interest from the Premier League.
The Japanese striker, 22, has scored eight goals for the Bundesliga side this season, helping them to the top of the table and that has drawn admiring glances from Liverpool and Manchester United, according to reports in Germany.
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We stayed for a friends wedding - the hotel itself is in a great location 15 minutes to downtown minneapolis, 10 to the shops at west end, ridgedale mall, etc.
The most disappointing part of this trip was that despite informing reservations that there was about 12 rooms booked with the wedding party they split us all up in different locations throughout the hotel. They were busy however and did put us in a nice XL corner room.
The front patio was a great place to hangout at night after the wedding and socialize with other guests. There is a nice pond with a few tables and chairs creating a very nice environment to relax.
The beds here were above average with little outside noise - the only exception was the housekeeping closet that was right outside the door in the morning when housekeeping decided to have a 25 minute conversation outside the door at 8:30.
During our visit an overzealous security officer did come to chase down a woman we were talking with outside ( and I do mean chase - we thought she had done something wrong) in order to demand that she put shoes on so she didn't get hurt. My feeling is we were adults and if we didnt want to wear shoes as paying guests we shouldn't be bothered to put them on. We were not bothered about it after the initial confrontation.
Overall great property. Would stay again.
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Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) has become a popular imaging methodology in a broad range of applications given its large sensitivity to subsurface parameters and its relative simplicity to ... [more ▼]
Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) has become a popular imaging methodology in a broad range of applications given its large sensitivity to subsurface parameters and its relative simplicity to implement. More particularly, time-lapse ERT is now increasingly used for monitoring purposes in many contexts such as water content, permafrost, landslide, seawater intrusion, solute transport or heat transport experiments. Specific inversion schemes have been developed for time-lapse data sets. However, in contrast with static inversions for which many techniques including geostatistical, minimum support or structural inversion are commonly applied, most of the methodologies for time-lapse inversion still rely on non-physically based spatial and/or temporal smoothing of the parameters or parameter changes. In this work, we propose a time-lapse ERT inversion scheme based on the difference inversion scheme. We replace the standard smoothness-constraint regularization operator by the parameter change covariance matrix. This operator takes into account the correlation between changes in resistivity at different locations through a variogram computed using independent data (e.g., electromagnetic logs). It may vary for subsequent time-steps if the correlation length is time-dependent. The methodology is first validated and compared to the standard smoothness-constraint inversion using a synthetic benchmark simulating the injection of a conductive tracer into a homogeneous aquifer inducing changes in resistivity values of known correlation length. We analyze the influence of the assumed correlation length on inversion results. Globally, the method yields better results than the traditional smoothness constraint inversion. Even if a wrong correlation length is assumed, the method performs as well as the smoothness constraint since the regularization operator balances the weight given to the model constraint functional in the objective function. Then the methodology is successfully applied to a heat injection and pumping experiment in an alluvial aquifer. The comparison with direct measurements in boreholes (temperature loggers and distributed temperature sensing optic fibres) shows that ERT-derived temperatures and breakthrough curves image reliably the heat plume through time (increasing part of the curve, maximum and tail are correctly retrieved) and space (lateral variations of temperature are observed) with less spatial smoothing than standard methods. The development of new regularization operators for time-lapse inversion of ERT data is necessary given the broad range of applications where ERT monitoring is used. In many studies, independent data are available to derive geostatistical parameters that can be subsequently used to regularize geophysical inversions. In the future, the integration of spatio-temporal variograms into existing 4D inversion schemes should further improve ERT time-lapse imaging. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 13 (3 ULg)
Regularized focusing inversion of time-lapse electrical resistivity data: an approach to parametrize the minimum gradient support functional
Nguyen, Frédéric ; Hermans, Thomas
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Inversion of time-lapse resistivity data allows obtaining 'snapshots' of changes occurring in monitored systems for applications such as aquifer storage, geothermal heat exchange, site remediation or ... [more ▼]
Inversion of time-lapse resistivity data allows obtaining 'snapshots' of changes occurring in monitored systems for applications such as aquifer storage, geothermal heat exchange, site remediation or tracer tests. Based on these snapshots, one can infer qualitative information on the location and morphology of changes occurring in the subsurface but also quantitative estimates on the degree of changes in certain property such as temperature or total dissolved solid content. Analysis of these changes can provide direct insight into flow and transport and associated processes and controlling parameters. However, the reliability of the analysis is dependent on survey geometry, measurement schemes, data error, and regularization. Survey design parameters may be optimized prior to the monitoring survey. Regularization, on the other hand, may be chosen depending on available information collected during the monitoring. Common approaches consider smoothing model changes both in space and time but it is often needed to obtain a sharp temporal anomaly, for example in fractured aquifers. We here propose to use the alternative regularization approach based on minimum gradient support (MGS) (Zhdanov, 2002) for time-lapse surveys which will focus the changes in tomograms snapshots. MGS will limit the occurrences of changes in electrical resistivity but will also restrict the variations of these changes inside the different zones. A common difficulty encountered by practitioners in this type of regularization is the choice of an additional parameter, the so-called , required to define the MGS functional. To the best of our knowledge, there is no commonly accepted or standard methodology to optimize the MGS parameter . The inversion algorithm used in this study is CRTomo (Kemna 2000). It uses a Gauss-Newton scheme to iteratively minimize an objective function which consists of a data misfit functional and a model constraint functional. A univariate line search is performed at each Gauss-Newton iteration step to find the optimum value of the regularization parameter which minimizes the data misfit as a function of while the data misfit is above the desired value and yields the desired target misfit (root-mean square value of error-weighted data misfit equal to 1) at the last iteration for a maximum value of . We propose here to optimize the of the MGS functional by considering a univariate line search at the first iteration to find the that minimizes the data misfit. The parameter is then kept constant during the Gauss-Newton iterative scheme. In this contribution, we validate our approach on a numerical benchmark and apply it successfully on a case study in the context of salt tracers in fractured aquifers. Zhdanov M.S. 2002. Geophysical Inverse Theory and Regularization Problems. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 628 p. Kemna A. 2000. Tomographic Inversion of Complex Resistivity - Theory and Application. PhD Thesis, Ruhr University Bochum. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 9 (1 ULg)
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The apparatus of conservation at the ecoregional scale integrating natural landscape and cultural landscapes in the Amazon basin has been introduced by international conservation NGOs since the beginning ... [more ▼]
The apparatus of conservation at the ecoregional scale integrating natural landscape and cultural landscapes in the Amazon basin has been introduced by international conservation NGOs since the beginning of the 90s when the term hotspot was invented to designate the importance of "mega-diversity "of tropical forests for the survival of humanity. The representation of environmental problems in the Amazon region as serious threats to life on the planet entered the political agenda of the international community becoming a matter of priority attention. To find solutions to this expanding threat, scientists, activists and interested parties have reflected on some formulas, innovative programs and strategies in order that cooperation and international aid could favor the action of effective conservation and sustainable development. The problem of resource degradation of biodiversity, and the loss of the values of cultural diversity of Amazonian peoples is since then conceived as a challenge that goes beyond national political interests, becoming a global issue. Bolivia was a breeding ground for these pioneering efforts, they have made a pragmatic view of international aid with new tools and effective techniques to combat emerging threats, one of them are financial mechanisms for conservation planning. These have entered the Bolivian legal system from the 80 which coincides with the modernization of the state, an ambitious development plan supported by the implementation of neoliberal measures to promote economic growth, administrative decentralization as a new form to exercise power by delegating powers to the departmental and municipal levels, popular participation, as legitimacy methodology, defining local actors and regional planning policy as a useful management of natural resources for sustainable development. International actors of conservation, a group of scientific elite and environmental activists in the country and leaders of local indigenous movements have played an important role before and after this neoliberal modernization in the implementation of an ecorregional conservation apparatus in the Bolivian Amazon. The objective of this transdisciplinaria research, is an ethnographic description, based on the theoretical and methodological repertoire of legal anthropology and sociology of ANT Translation, of how the practices and strategies of conservation at the ecoregional scale through its technical, financial and legal instruments configure the territories, affect social relations and transform representations and practices of the nature of Amazonian peoples Mosetene, Tsimane' Tacana, Quechua-Tacana and Leco. The traditional spaces of these peoples are in total or partially overlapping with the current Natural Park and Integrated Management Area Madidi and Biosphere Reserve and Indigenous Territory Pilón Lajas implemented as protected areas during the 90 In this context, challenges and current controversies looming over the planning and use of space at different scales between actors of the policies of sustainable development and conservation, local political elites and indigenous peoples. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 19 (10 ULg)
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Beaujean, Jean
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Most of humans live in coastal and alluvial plains. Sustainable water supply systems are essential for drinking water production while long-term groundwater access ensures its geothermal use. Owing to ... [more ▼]
Most of humans live in coastal and alluvial plains. Sustainable water supply systems are essential for drinking water production while long-term groundwater access ensures its geothermal use. Owing to climate change and anthropogenic activities, groundwater resources will be increasingly threatened throughout the twenty-first century. In the context of over-development, any effort to overcome groundwater mining at the expense of better understanding groundwater management problems may be misguided. A combination of robust measuring technologies and reliable predictions based on numerical models are necessary to estimate better hydrogeological parameters. Sparse and continuous data are increasingly being used conjunctively in hydrogeological modeling and inverse calibration to alleviate extrapolation and subjective interpretation. In hydrogeology, electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) gives quantitative and qualitative information on salinity and temperature distribution. ERT offers a means for mapping the subsurface hydrogeological structures and the hydrologic process dynamics in both space and time. The integration of ERT data to hydrogeological calibration is particularly suited to define the hydrogeological models quantitatively and qualitatively. In a deterministic framework, hydrogeophysical inversion methods may be particularly useful for predictive analysis and assessment of groundwater pre-emptive management strategies. This work focuses on calibrating physically-based and spatially distributed groundwater flow and transport models with non-to minimally invasive electrical tomography. The general objective is to provide better estimates of hydrogeological parameters on two relevant problems: seawater intrusion in coastal areas and geothermal energy in shallow environments. We compare methods to integrate quantitatively ERT data, possibly other hydrologic or geological data, with existing information to hydrogeological models. Two hydrogeophysical inversion schemes are developped and a thorough comparison of an uncoupled and a coupled quantitative approach based on the use of surface ERT only is performed. The uncoupled hydrogeophysical inversion involves constraining hydraulic parameters using geophysically-derived data and first requires a geophysical inversion, after which the geophysical parameters are converted to hydrologic data through a petrophysical relationship. The inverse hydrological calibration is then performed on these inferred hydrological data. The coupled hydrogeophysical inversion involves constraining hydraulic parameters using geophysical data through a forward hydrogeophysical model in which the hydrologic data are converted to resistivities through a petrophysical relationship. A geophysical forward problem is then solved for the geophysical data. The inverse hydrological calibration is performed on the inferred geophysical observations. In both schemes, we show that an independent geophysical inversion is required to delineate heterogeneous bodies. In this context, we study how to derive informative content of ERT images and therefore ERTderived hydrologic data and ERT-derived geometry. We show that a quantitative appraisal (the cumulative sensitivity) must be used as a proxy for filtering areas correctly resolved. Our developments are demonstrated on several benchmark SWI models (numerical and analytical), a thermohydrologic model and a field test. We show that the reliability of estimated SWI model parameters with the uncoupled approach depends on ERT image appraisal, on geophysical data collection strategy and hydrogeological model conceptualization. The ERT image appraisal plays a key role in retrieving high quality ERT-derived data and helps discriminate different measurement arrays. It is particularly useful in preventing the integration of noise-related artefacts in the conceptualization. We endeavor to quantify the modeling error by a thorough comparison of different strategies to assess the effect of decreasing model conceptual errors to hydrogeological calibration. In the SWI analytical models, we highlight the subjectivity of the uncoupled approach due to the nature of the required hydrologic data (sharp interface). We demonstrate that the conjunctive use of an image appraisal tool with the well-known Ghyben-Herzberg solution is needed to infer reliable ERT-derived observation data. We further demonstrate that a SWI analytical solution may be used to calibrate an equivalent hydraulic parameter based on an ERT dataset generated from a density-dependent groundwater flow model. In the thermohydrologic model, we show that the effectiveness of the uncoupled scheme in calibrating heat transport parameters may be hampered due to the regularization constraint in the geophysical inversion. We demonstrate the importance of a noise level-related filter on the time-lapse ERT images aimed at properly quantifying the spatio-temporal ERTderived temperature changes. We also advocate the use of a physically-based constraint on the ERT-derived temperatures to account for spatial mixing of waters and to cope indirectly with the smoothing effect in the ERT images. In each application, the coupled approach significantly prevails over the uncoupled scheme in terms of reliability of the parameter estimates when no model conceptual error exists. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 6 (0 ULg)
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Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" (Associated Press) American master.
Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation-both material and psychological--motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his wife's pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl, until she reaches her breaking point; a disturbed veteran of Iraq is murdered for his erratic behavior; an outsider's house is set on fire by an angry neighbor.
There is also the tenderness and loyalty of the vulnerable in these stories--between spouses, parents and children, siblings, and comrades in arms-which brings the troubled, sorely tested cast of characters to vivid, relatable life. And, as ever, "the music coming from Woodrell's banjo cannot be confused with the sounds of any other writer" (Donald Harington, Atlanta Journal Constitution).
Five of Daniel Woodrell's eight published novels were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Tomato Red won the PEN West Award for the Novel in 1999. Woodrell lives in the Ozarks near the Arkansas line with his wife, Katie Estill.
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"Woodrell writes about violence and dark deeds better than almost anyone in America today, in compact, musical prose that doesn't dwell on visceral detail. An unerring craftsman, he can fully describe a murder in one rich sentence....Most of the stories deal with the darkest recesses of the human heart, and once you begin reading them you can't stop."—Donald Ray Pollock, New York Times Book Review
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By Craig Leisher, senior social scientist, The Nature Conservancy
During a recent trip to Carlsbad Caverns National Park, my son spent $5 to "adopt" a bat. His adopt-a-bat package showed a picture of a pallid bat, a sand-colored desert specialist.
A glance at the picture of his adopted bat stopped me in my tracks. It showed a bat with a scorpion in its mouth! Bats eat scorpions? How is that possible? Bats eat flying insects, right?
After reading the scientific literature on Antrozous pallidus and looking at the Bat Conservation International website, here's the pallid bat's story. It's far weirder than I imagined.
Pallid bats live in the western United States and are the size of a sparrow but with the wingspan of a crow—though they are of course mammals and not birds.
Their big wings allow them to hover and catching their food on the ground. They have large ears that can hear the footsteps of a scorpion or centipede (another favorite food).
The bats appear to be immune to scorpion stings from even the most venomous scorpion in North America, the Arizona bark scorpion. Up to 70% of a pallid bat's diet can be scorpions at certain times of the year.
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Pallid bats have unusually large eyes for a bat, and several species of bats are known to be able to see ultraviolet light. Might the pallid bat also see ultraviolet light? My hypothesis is that they do. Scorpions, and to a less extent centipedes, fluoresce brightly under a 'black' light.
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When the weirdness is added together what we have is a scorpion-eating flying mammal that's immune to scorpion stings, can hear the rustle of a scorpion from a distance, can hover above the ground, has echo location but doesn't use it when attacking scorpions, and may be able to see the ultraviolet light that scorpions reflect. Bats are amazing creatures.
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There is an important concept in science known as "Occam's Razor", or the "Principle of Parsimony" which states that given competing hypotheses the one which depends upon the fewest assumptions should be selected.
Given that; (1) Pallid Bats make no particular specialization on scorpions but sometimes include them among their very, very broad range of prey, (2) Pallids are able to find their terrestrial prey quite handily using the sounds the prey make, (3) they will drop off an attack if the prey stops moving, and (4) there is no evidence to suggest that Pallid Bats have some unique adaptation to their all-rod cell retinas to be able to see in the ultraviolet, this "phosphorescent scorpion" idea just doesn't hold water.
Pallid Bats have pretty good visual acuity at low light levels, binocularity, and exceptional hearing over a broad range of frequencies, including lower frequencies, in addition to their fairly "standard equipment" echolocation system which is not particularly specialized for detecting prey on surfaces. They depend mostly on prey sounds and vision to support their unorthodox hunting style.
You can find my original paper on Pallid Bat sensory modality in the Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
June 1982, Volume 10, Issue 3, pp 217-223; "Behavioral and ecological aspects of gleaning by a desert insectivorous bat Antrozous pallidus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)".
Your 1982 paper was my first read when I searched the literature on Pallid bats. I'm sure you're right and Pallid bats find their prey with their acute hearing and vision, but when I read about other species of bats with the ability to see ultraviolet light in Nature (Winter et al. 2003) and PNAS (Zhao et al. 2009) and recalled how scorpions and centipedes' florescence under an ultraviolet light, I wondered if anyone had studied Pallid bats' eyes. Another paper you authored notes that Pallid bats retain their visual acuity even at light levels "comparable to ground luminance on a clear, moonless night", but I found no studies of the sensitivity to different wavelengths of light in Pallid bats. I was intrigued by the Zhao et al. (2009) paper that studied 33 species of bats (but not Pallid bats) and suggested "UV color vision plays a considerably more important role in nocturnal mammalian sensory ecology than previously appreciated." Hence my hypothesis.
Great information on UV sensitivity in bats. I was not aware of those – thanks for the references. One thing to note in those studies is that there are very few cone cells in the retinas of those species of bats in which they have been found – most of the receptors (97% or more) are made of of densely-packed rod cells, up to 400,000 per mm2. I suspect that if some bats have cone cells that are sensitive to UV the function may have something to do with circadian clock-setting or perhaps azimuthal orientation rather than strictly visual.
A couple of other important points of clarification; (1) Pallid bats do not have very acute or sensitive vision compared with other Microchiropteran bats. My lab tests with Antrozous showed it to be a pretty mediocre visual performer, actually less visually-inclined than the Big Brown Bat, Eptesicus fuscus, although they do have slightly greater binocular overlap. The species I referred to that has high visual acuity even at low light levels is the California Leaf-nosed bat, Macrotus californicus (now THERE is a remarkable creature!). And Macrotus has twice the binocular overlap of the Pallid bat suggesting the ability to use vision for depth perception.
(2) I would use great caution in interpreting behavioral responses of animals to Black Lights. Although these instruments do emit the greatest amount of energy in the UV band, they still emit light in the visual spectrum. Some bulbs are filtered to minimize visual wavelengths and some are not, but even the filtered ones emit visible spectrum.
(3) But the other problem is that the UV issue is really moot because scorpions aren't emitting UV, they are "simply" fluorescing in response to UV light. So, if Pallid bats were in any way visually specialized to see scorpions it should be in the Blue-Green and not in the Ultraviolet. But where Pallid's are specialized is in their low-frequency hearing sensitivity, as would be expected.
Interesting article, this is another great example of the diversity amongst bats. Whether its habitat, diet, ability its simply amazing. Working in humane bat removal and bat control in the Columbus, Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio area we often hear several myths and misconceptions about bats. I have a lot of great information about humane bat removal and bat control if anyone would like at http://www.propestmen.com/ohio/critters/bats/bat_removal_bat_control.html We also have a lot of information about bats in general at http://www.propestmen.com/ohio/index.html it may be very useful to some so feel free to take a look. Thanks again for the fascinating article, I really enjoyed it.
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£250,000 2 Bedrooms Tower Hill, Bere Regis, Wareham
A recently built two bedroom detached property that would be a perfect purchase as a 2nd/holiday home that could also suit a professional couple as a main residence. The property has the benefit of an ENJOY ENGLAND GOLD AWARD in recognition of exceptiona
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