Since ancient times, people have noted the amazing ability of bats to fly around obstacles in complete darkness, they were credited with magical abilities, but modern science declares that there is nothing magic in bats, they use echolocation for orientation in space.
Instructions
Step 1
Almost all species of bats are nocturnal, which means they must have dark-adapted senses. Indeed, despite the fact that bats have eyes that they can see in the daytime, they mostly rely on echolocation.
Step 2
The first researchers trying to understand the abilities of bats covered their eyes and covered their bodies and wings with a composition that was supposed to make the skin insensitive, but the bats avoided all obstacles without problems. Only in the middle of the 20th century, scientists managed to figure out how mice navigate in space. During flight, bats emit sound waves, and then catch their reflections from surrounding objects and thus create a picture of the world.
Step 3
Bats make sounds in the ultrasonic range, so we cannot hear them. But the mice themselves understand each other very well. They have their own special language, numbering at least 15 syllables. Mice do not just make sounds, they sing songs that not only help them navigate in space, but also enable them to communicate. With their songs, mice recognize each other, attract females, solve controversial issues about the territory, teach cubs. Some scientists put the language of bats in second place after the human language.
Step 4
Bats make strong sounds, so their ears are closed with special partitions while singing, if nature had not provided such a mechanism, the mice would very quickly lose hearing from constant overload.
Step 5
Baby bats do not immediately master the technique of reconnaissance of space using ultrasound, they learn this gradually, in the process of communicating with their parents, to whom they try to shout with the help of calling sounds, which are ultimately transformed into calling sounds.
Step 6
Bats can see obstacles at a distance of about 17 meters. They emit their signals either through the mouth or through the nose, depending on the species.
