article_snippet: Despite flying through the air at high-speeds, researchers have discovered that bats avoid mishaps because researchers have researchers own set of ‘traffic rules' when hunting for food.
article_snippet: Somerset Daubenton’s bats, in particular, chase each other, perform tandem turns and can even slow down without ever hitting each other.
article_snippet: Researchers from Bristol University found Somerset Daubenton’s bats interact by swapping between leading and following, and Somerset Daubenton’s bats swap these roles by copying the route a nearby individual was using up to 500 milliseconds earlier .
article_snippet: Dr Marc Holderied, of the School of Biological Sciences at Bristol University, studied pairs of Daubenton’s bats foraging low over water for stranded insects at a site near the village of Barrow Gurney, in Somerset.
article_snippet: The experts studied Daubenton's bats (pictured).
article_snippet: The experts said: 'Daubenton's bats (pictured) seem to have adopted a simple trick - once another individual is close enough for your biosonar to pick up your biosonar echo [and] copy this individual’s flight direction.
article_snippet: Dr Holderied said: 'Daubenton's bats (pictured) seem to have adopted a simple trick - once another individual is close enough for your biosonar to pick up your biosonar echo, copy this individual’s flight direction within four to five of your own wingbeats.'
highlights_snippet: Researches studied pairs of Daubenton’s bats in Barrow Gurney, Somerset .
  
highlights_snippet: Study found the bats interact by swapping between leading and following .
  
highlights_snippet: the bats  swap these roles by copying the route a nearby individual was using up to 500 milliseconds earlier .