Bats Hunting Prey Technique
The
basic tool for hunting is the echolocation, because they are blind.
Echolocation is the use of sound wave and echoes to determine where objects are
in space.
Bats have adapted very
large ears to gather and process as much sound data as possible. It is very
similar to the sonar utilized by dolphins and wales. Insects flying at night
are nearly invisible to vision-orientated predators and can be seen only by using echolocation.
While echolocation paints a very clear picture of a bat’s surroundings,
there are some disadvantages to echolocation. Bats have to continually vocalize
to be able to create and hear echoes off
their surroundings, and bats cannot listen for an echo while vocalizing.
When the sound waves produced by these sounds hit an insect or other
animal, the echoes bounce back to the bat, and guide them to the source.
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