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The bat: one of nature’s most inscrutable beasts. They may be the most vocal mammals on the planet after humans, but most of their communication happens at ultrasonic frequencies inaudible to the human ear. What are you saying, bat? Not even PRISM can tell us.

Luckily, a man called Wolter Seuntjens has had the idea of reducing the frequency of bat-song so we can hear it, and it turns out that they’re actually singing the ‘Batman’ theme as they flap through the night sky. Well, not really, sadly. But once Seuntjens and his associates realised that bat language is still pretty hard to translate even when you can hear it, they decided the next best thing was to simply use the recordings to make a new version of the famous superhero theme, set it to classic footage of the 60s TV show, and stick it up on Youtube. And, while the results are of dubious scientific value, that is something they should be applauded for.