Bats rely heavily on sound and echolocation for survival. They use echolocation to hunt insects, navigate in the dark, and find friends and colonies. Their large ears and ability to emit and detect high frequency sounds allows bats to use echoes to locate prey and obstacles. Without echolocation, bats would be unable to feed themselves or navigate at night, and would not be able to locate social groups. Sound plays a far greater role for bats than it does for humans.

2. Bats use their hearing for a lot of
things we don’t –
•Eating bugs
•Flying in the dark
Bats use their hearing for some things
that we do –
•Finding its friends
BATS HEAR THINGS WE CAN’T

3. Compared to us, bats have
very big ears.
They use their ear flaps to
hear high pitched sounds.
BAT’S EARS

4. •Bats can make noises with
their bodies that we can’t
make with ours.
•They can send out high
pitched sound waves that
bounces off something and
the sound wave comes back
to the bat.
•The bat can use echoes to find out how
close something is.
ECHOLOCATION

5. Bats have huge appetites. Bats
use echolocation to catch their
food.
Their favorite foods include
beetles, moths, flies, mosquitoes,
grasshoppers, crickets, and
sometimes scorpions. Some
tropical bats like fruit. Other
bats eat fish, frogs, mice, or
small birds.
Without sound, they would
starve.
BATTY EATING HABITS

6. Bats live in colonies.
Bats use echolocation to find
their friends and family in a
cave full of bats.
Like us, they like to have
lots of friends to “hang” out
together.
BATS USE SOUND TO FIND THEIR FRIENDS

7. Bats are nocturnal.
They sleep during the
day and hunt at night.
They can fly around
objects in pitch black night.
We need a night light so
we won’t trip.
BATS USE SOUND TO SEE IN THE DARK

8. SOUND IS MORE IMPORTANT TO BATS THAN TO US
They use sound to survive. Without sound-
•They would starve.
•They would not be able to fly at night when the
bugs are out.
•They would not be able to find their colony of
friends.

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