Book bat!For the “Busting Bat Myths” art contest at the local Indiana Bat Festival.
Book bat!For the “Busting Bat Myths” art contest at the local Indiana Bat Festival. :) This guy is a big brown bat, which is a common species around here. Except he’s been ah, a little stylized.Bats are not in fact blind! But many species of microbats, such as this fellow, don’t really rely on eye sight. They instead rely on their echolocation, essentially screaming into the surrounding area then navigating based on echoes. There are also species that use a sense of smell to hunt, such as the spectral bat, which are a bit like flying wolves.Many fruit bats, while also having a great sense of smell, have much larger eyes. :) Giving them the “flappy puppy” look. -- source link
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