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iPhone 4 was used. I didn’t have the light on the phone’s camera to flash when the picture was taken. The only light on in my room was my lamplight. Does this help, or? I can look at the package but I don’t think it’s LED...?

Hi, thanks for your response. I meant to add, the bat wasn’t screeching when the shots were taken. He was quiet. How can there be disruption caused by ultrasound in the light waves or what-have-you (sorry, not well versed with physics terminology), when the bat isn’t making sound? I mean, imagine taking a photo of your pet cat when he’s not meowing—same thing applies here. The bat was not making sound at all, and yet having the lens anywhere within a foot of him caused such disruptions in the photograph... So confused... I’ll continue trying to find articles on it, and I’ll look into the ultrasound thing as well, but I’m confused as to how that would apply when a bat is quiet. I had posted this same topic in the Ecology section hoping some biologist may know about I guess a bat’s response to the environment. Maybe bats emit some kind of energy on the molecular/atomic level that disrupts light/wavelengths or particles of light/whatever that won’t allow for them to be photographed.

Pause a lot. (Kidding.) From what I’ve experienced, the best of story-tellers will over-emphasize points of a topic that they find intriguing. They’ll ask you questions that tie into this point, and because the question is phrased in a way that will make the point seem larger-than-life, the point made will start to seem self-explanatorily significant...when it may not be. It’s like “the clincher,” the hook that’s supposed to captivate you. Get good at that, and I’m sure you’ll keep your audience interested.

Yes, the world would be a better place without religion. Although I think religions were fabricated in a way to organize a structure of how to behave with others with its codes of morality, differentiating between right and wrong, it did more damage by creating this sense of “us” versus “them” (“our beliefs” versus “their beliefs”) and causing more division and fights amongst people of such divisions, instead of fulfilling its original purpose: to create a sense of unity by making people aware of how to do “right” by one another. On a more personal note, life isn’t the dichotomy as we choose to view it. I’ve never been one to believe in “that is wrong, and because that is wrong, then this is right, and it’s the only right way to do it right”—and quite frankly I never even understood people who insist on thinking in such a way. Why is that the only “right way” to do something, the only way to live? There are too many different kinds of people, too many different ways to handle a single situation, for there to be a religion that would suit all.

Hey everyone, Not sure if this is the right forum to ask this in (and I might post this same one in one of the biological sciences’ forums as well), but I had a quick question for anyone who has a solid understanding of how bats respond to photographs (and light)—and vice versa (the behavior of light as it captures a photograph of a bat): When taking a picture of a bat you happened to have found, is it normal to have disruption in the photo’s light-frequency, so much so that there are areas of dark bars in the photo? In the photo with the dark bars, the camera lens was within a foot of the bat. I’m wondering, do bats emit on the molecular level some kind of electro-magnetic frequency that disrupts a camera which tries to photograph it? Open to all ideas/discussion/questions... Just trying to figure out how/why this happened. All other photos were clear; only when the lens was within a foot of the bat would the photograph not be captured. Tried researching it but can’t find an article that explains it. Thanks!