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Show Bats' Radar Bats are able to fly in complete darkness because of their own built-in built-in radar systems. The explanation offered is that these creatures locate lo-cate and avoid obstructions in their way by making supersonic cries which are echoed back from the objects as identifying electronic "echoes" come back to radar gadgets. gad-gets. The night-flying technique of the creatures was revealed by experiments ex-periments in which blindfolded bats were able to get about without mishap, mis-hap, while those with their ears covered could not. |