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  • African heart-nosed bats can have such a keen sense of sound that they can hear the footsteps of a beetle walking on sand from six feet away.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • Bats sleep during the day and feed at night. The place that bats sleep in is called the "roost."
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  • Bats emit ultrasonic sounds to communicate with each other.
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  • Frog-eating bats identify edible frogs from poisonous ones by listening to the mating calls of male frogs. Frogs counter this by hiding and using short, difficult to locate calls.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
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  • Giant flying foxes, which are a type of bat, that live in Indonesia have wingspans of nearly six feet.
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    (Added: Sat Jan 12 2008 By Gauher)



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