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Thursday 29 May 2014

Echolocation about bats

Echolocation is a form of communication of when bats hunt and find where objects are hidden at night, bats also   communicate with other bats on how they use echolocation, this means that when you speak in a large area, or cave you can hear your own echo. Echolocation is a very special sound, this is a remarkable process of how they use their  ears instead of there eyes at night.


Echolocation is such an exceptional thing for animals because when they wake up at night which means they sleep in the daytime and that is called nocturnal. Echolocation is when bats hunt at night for food, this also helps the bats know where to go at night, because at night when they make a higher pitched sound the sound goes in front of the bat, then they become sound waves and then hit the object then back to the bat. The further away the object the softer the sound.


Echolocation is when sound waves locate the object.
Other animals like whales use echolocation and the whales use water and this is a terrific transmitter  because, the sound waves travel through the water 5 times faster in water then it does in the air.


Bats rely on their ears at night because there eyes are tiny and can not really see so thats why they rely on their ears. The bats ears are quite large compared to the size of the head.
bats don't care at night because they just think



Bats communicate by when they make sound and thats how they gather up into a group
and fly together. They stay together as they are sleeping in the daytime which is  when they are in the cave and using ultrasound which is a special sound which they use with their eyes.  















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