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A hunting bat can call 200 times a second
The rate rises as it closes on an insect Calls go out above human hearing and the echoes return within milliseconds, giving a picture of the target. Bats also use echoes to judge the shape of a moth's wings. The Mexican free-tailed bat forms colonies of millions in a few caves. It sits in Mondo's animals collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
Where this comes from
Bat Conservation International
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A hunting bat can call 200 times a second: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The rate rises as it closes on an insect. The figure is taken from Bat Conservation International, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a animals fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Animals shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.