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Show By ART SANSOM IHE BORN LOSER TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1965 Tell Ma Why Are All Bats Really Blind? night and do all their hunting By A. LEOKUM food by daylight Win the Britannica for But wbat about the bats that! Junior Encyclopedia tor Khool at night! They can see very and borne. Send your questions, fly well in semidarkness and can name, age, address to "Tell see fairly well in broad dayMe Why!" car of this paper. How are they able to light In case of delicate questions, see when, it is completely the author will decide the win ; dark? ner. Today's winner is: These particular bats utter a Karen Altsman, 11, Beaver series of.. very Falls, Pa. sounds when they fly. These sounds are so that Everybody has heard the ex the human ear cannot hear pression "Blind As a Bat" It's them! But they serve as a kind based on the idea that bats of "radar" lor the bat When can't see at all, or can't see they are flying near an obstacle, very well. And this idea prob the echoes from these sounds ably arose because many bats are thrombactind--artJjearavoid flying about in bright dayby the bat in time for it to light and fly mostly at dusk or at night But the idea is wrong! Bats LITTLE are not blind, and in fact, some bats are very active during the daytime hours. There are even some bats, such as the fruit bats, which sleep during the I - high-pitch- r WAYOUT By KEN MUSE u ii high-pitch- ilSili!!! Most bats eat insects, while- many bats eat fruit or the pol len from flowers, or even fish.' There is one kind of bat, the vampire bat that feeds only on blood. It gets the blood from " horses, cattle, dogs, chickens and people! It makes a shallow hole in the skin with its two sharp upper front teeth, and then laps the blood that comes from Jfee. woundVThe vampira bat lives in Mexico, Central America, and the warm part of South America. change its course and so avoid flying into the obstacle! Most people know very little about bats but there are many things about them that are fascinating. For . one thing, they have been around for a long, there are fossil long time remains of bats that are years old! The bat is also the only mammal that can flyC Bats live practically in all the places in the world except in and near the polar regions. There are more than 2,000 different kinds of bats and they range in size from some with a d h almost a wingspread! six-inc- 4ailmiuV d Jinu-The- ILOWSTD fCrt? C WANO5BI0 rj- History TO THEM ' uthat. Dm Bx DICK BROOKS THE IACKSON TWiNS COME ON. CURT, LET'S REALLY SHOW THIS GROUP SETTING A , THE HULLY GULLY HASINWINP esq RUSH THE FiOORf CURT. I Y SUPE.JANf SIMPLY MUST SO f HONEST MUCH LATER IHEPCSTHEBIS OH. OH.' lOOkrJ TEST OF WHAT AT THE TIME I CURT REALLY OUCNEW IMEMBEB'S ICDUtPONCB ALL NIGHT AND NOT EVEN TOUCH "" 5" jjy, By United Press International Today is Tuesday, May 25, the 145th day of 1965 with 220 to follow. 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