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How do bats find their food?

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Bats use echolocation to fly around and find their food. With echolocation, the bats make sounds as they fly. These sounds bounce off of things around them so that they can tell how close or far away from things they are. They can even tell what the object is.

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In emitting high-pitched sounds and listening to resultant echoes, the process used in radar technology, bats are able to locate prey and nearby objects. This is the process known as echolocation.

To catch insects, bats use their wings. Their wings are the only part of their bodies not covered by hair, but with thin, tough skin. Bats use their wings like hands, and they have little thumbs and wrists on them.

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it is a common misconception that bats have poor eyesight its just due to that they are nocturnal that their eyes do not work as well in daylight, however they do not rely on their eyes to hunt for prey except they use a ability called supersonic. The bat emitts a high frequency sounds which reflects off prey and comes back to the bat, where its complex hearing sense analyses how far the prey is away, what direction it is etc. It repeats this until it has successfully caught it's prey.

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It sends out sonar signals that bounce off of things, so they can fly torward it without running into walls because walls send back bigger signals than bugs.

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By attacking their prey at night

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