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Article: Blind as a Bat?(how bats use their eyes)(Brief Article)
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- Sports Afield
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- October 1, 2001
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ACTUALLY, ALL SPECIES OF BATS CAN see. "They need their eyes as much as we do," says Patricia Winters, California Bat Conservation Fund education director. Winters says the blindness myth began in the 18th century when people discovered bats used "echolocation," a kind of sonar, to fly in total darkness.
The assumption was ...
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