ECHOLOCATION
Chip's Book of Knowledge Echolocation Bat Quiz Folklore Vampire bats Fascinating Facts Bat Pictures Bats of the Amazon Rainforest	Bats let out 60 high-frequency sounds per second. Echolocation is the only way that insect eating bats find their food. Echolocation is using echoes to find objects. The bat lets out a high-pitched sound, and by measuring the amount of time it takes to hear an echo, it can tell how far away an object is and which direction it is in. That is why it is called ECHOlocation. The first person who figured out that bats use echolocation to find their food was Lazzaro Spallanzani, an Italian zoologist. He made a maze out of silk string, and covered their eyes. The bats flew through the maze without a problem and didn't get tangled up. After that, Spallanzani clogged up their ears, and the bats got tangled up on the strings. All bats have different skills, fishing bats are the best at echolocation. They can detect many things that would be extremely hard for a human to find. In fact, bats are so good at echolocating, that they can find a minnow's fin as small as a human hair, just two millimeters above the water. All bats use echolocation. Vampire bats, fruit eating bats, frog eating bats fish eating bats, insect eating bats, and nectar eating bats. Some use it a lot, like insect eating bats, and some barely use it at all, like fruit eating bats. But all of them do use echolocation.
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