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If bats are blind how do they hunt?

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Johlucmoha

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

First, bats are not blind. Contrary to popular belief, scientific facts have shown that bats have poor eyesight, but aren't blind.

Bats use echolocation. The bat emits an echo, or 'screech', then the screech bounces off of the prey, and then the bat hears the screech that bounced off from the prey, and then it catches the prey.

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