Superfast Muscles Help Bats Make High-Pitched Buzz

Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

The muscles controlling the bat's vocal cords are able to contract 100 times faster than the muscles of a human's leg, twitching up to 190 times per second.

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