Searching for bats in the dark

Studing the bats life is not that simple. Bat biologist Nickolay Hristov, of UNC's Center for Design Innovation and Winston-Salem State University, has developed an innovative technique for filming and visualizing bats and the caves they occupy. Some of the tools in his kit include a long-range laser scanner (useful for modelling bat cave morphology in 3D) and portable thermal cameras to capture bat-life when the lights are off.