The answer is Aristotle, who wrote:
"For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all,"
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When people saw bats fly into walls and/or narrowly miss them. People figured bats were blind and they were right. So whenever someone bumped into a wall, they said they were as blind as bats.
Yes they are blind.
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Bats have very sensitive eyes that are pretty much useless if they try to see anything in daylight. This leads people to think that bats have very bad vision.
If it relates to person, not very, as bats do have sight although poor and people have no sonar facility to make up it.
to find their way around cause their kinda blind
He is fast. He is as quick as a bunny. She is blind. She is as blind as a bat. Paul is tall. He is as tall as a giant.
The saying "blind as a bat" is a common misconception, as bats are not blind. In fact, most bats have good eyesight, with some species even possessing echolocation to navigate in the dark. The saying likely originated from the belief that bats rely solely on echolocation rather than eyesight.
Red as a rose blind as a bat light As a feather
>as blind as a bat>as hard as nails>as wise as an owl?
A bat is suited for its environment because of its ears. Bats are blind. Their sounds bounce of objects that allow them to detect items that surround them.
Bats are not blind. Animals which live in caves and never come out are blind, like some fish and salamanders. Animals which live on the bottom of the ocean and never have any light are blind. Some moles and shrews are nearly blind.