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There’s a reason bats hunt by sonar instead of vision.
by danielheath 6y ago
There’s a reason bats hunt by sonar instead of vision.
- bigiain 6y agoTo be fair though, part of that is because they hunt at night. There are a few places here in Sydney where you see a remarkable cloud of bats feeding in bright light - the lights over the harbour bridge and several of the tax buildings bordering the Botanic Gardens regularly have flocks of bats whirling around presumably attracted to all the insects flying in the bright lights...
- danielheath 6y agoThere's lots of food that only comes out at night; if it weren't bats, some other predator species would have developed sonar to hunt them.