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Felix T. Häfele

@felixhaefele

Mechanical engineer turned bat biologist. Currently investigating how bats use echolocation to hunt so efficiently the night sky. Postdoc at Sound Communication and Behaviour Group, University of Southern Denmark (SDU).

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Great suggestion! I will definitely take a closer look at it for future projects. Maybe we can replace Metashape with an open source alternative!

19.11.2025 10:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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3D photogrammetry as a low‐cost and non‐invasive method for acoustic modelling of animal hearing Sound localization is important for all eared animals and the spatio-spectral cues for localization are described through the head-related transfer function (HRTF). Current state-of-the-art for ob...

Happy to share our new paper is now published! 🎉

We developed a non-invasive method to model animal hearing using 3D photogrammetry and showed it on bats 🦇 and a pig. It even allowed us to capture the 3D mesh of an alive and awake bat and model its hearing! 🔉

Article: doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪

18.11.2025 08:40 👍 34 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1

Sure that sounds cool. That happens automatically or do you have to add people?

21.02.2025 08:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Great stuff. Sounddevice I know. I'll have check out pyroomacoustics. Thanks :)

18.02.2025 21:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Exciting. Tomorrow we will have a Python workshop with our bioacoustics research group that I helped organize. Anyone have some last minute advice what I definitely should mention? #Python #Bioacoustics

18.02.2025 19:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Velocity as an overlooked driver in the echolocation behavior of aerial hawking vespertilionid bats Moving animals must gather information at sufficient rates, detail, and range relative to their velocity while filtering this information to that esse…

Happy to share the first article I was part of :)

Have you ever wondered how velocity influences echolocation behavior of aerial hawking bats? We found when accounting for flight velocity the investigated species probed their environment in an equal manner.

authors.elsevier.com/c/1kXK9_LsQS...

04.02.2025 08:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In the end all worth it though and you end up with cool videos of G. sorocina drinking nectar like this. #bat

15.01.2025 15:27 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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4 scientists wait for a bat to decide to feed so we can take video and audio recordings ... its a process 🤣

15.01.2025 14:49 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

maybe more the storage location: engine room vs inside the car? 🚗

15.01.2025 12:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Great meeting! Awesome science! Lovely people. Bioacoustics ❤️ #TDFF2025

11.01.2025 18:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0