Did you know that in one bat-cave, you could find___
many as 20 million bats? In spite___
their extraordinary numbers, bats miraculously never fly___
each
spite
other!
bounce back to themselves,
How is this possible? Bats emit ultrasonic sounds
short, they use their ears to
allowing them to judge the size and distance of objects.
incredible accuracy that they can even detect a tiny
"see"! Bats can achieve this with
ant on the ground! Not
that, but they also use their voices to sing like birds! Yet,
high for
unlike birds, bats sing in mostly ultrasonic frequencies that are usually
humans to hear. In fact, bats have some of the most intricate communication systems in the animal
found to have
kingdom. They actually use their songs to talk to each other, and have
so amazed
humans. Indeed, scientists
distinctive vocal patterns, just
by bats, they believe that by studying bat-language, they could provide better treatment
human speech disorders.
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