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Bats produce high frequency tones within their throats that deflect off of every object around them. They have highly attuned hearing that can use the reflections of these sounds to determine the location of other objects, in particular food, predators and their general environment.

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What can bats do that other mammals cant?

Bats can fly and echo locate.


What is a method used by some animals bats for example that uses sound waves to help locate prey and other objects in the dark?

Echo


How a buffalo gets water?

Much like bats use echo location as an extra sense, buffalo enables it to locate the nearest body of water.


How do bats use their ears to catch insect?

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How does hearing help bats survive?

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How are echo soundings used by animals?

To locate prey.


Why the hearing of spectacled flying foxes is not attuned to a high frequency as that of most other bat species?

Flying foxes are fruit bats. They do not need to echo-locate flying fruit.


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Echolocation is the ability to locate objects by bouncing sound waves off of them, and then measuring the time taken for an echo to return and calculating the direction the echo came from.


What do dolphins use to locate objects?

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Do bats catch insects on their wings?

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What are some Useful and not so useful echo?

A useful echo is echolocation, which is used by marine animals such as dolphins to locate and then hunt their prey


Why do Some bats use echo location?

because bats are blind