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around the time the sun is going down? Did you see some animals flying around? At first you might have thought they were birds. After watching for a while you notice they just don’t seem to fly like birds. Instead of swooping and gliding they tend to have a more erratic or unpredictable pattern. Most likely you are seeing bats.
Misunderstood Bats
Like humans, bats are mammals. They are warm-blooded, covered in hair, have live young, and nurse their young (called pups). Unlike humans, bats have wings, which allow them to fly. Despite their differences on the outside, when we look at the bones on the inside they are very similar to those found in birds and even humans.
You might also have heard the common expression “blind as a bat.” Actually bats can see quite well. In fact, bats can hear, smell, and feel just like humans. Unlike humans, who spend most of our time in the daylight, bats are nocturnal so you see them out only at night. To help them find food in the dark bats use high frequency sound waves and their echoes to find and catch their favorite food - insects. The sound waves are so high that humans cannot hear them, but bats and some other animals such as dolphins use sound waves and their echoes to navigate and locate food. This is called echolocation.
