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Hungry bats game

Bats use echolocation to find their food.

They send out calls when they're hunting at night and listen to the echoes that come back - they then use this information to 'map' their surroundings and work out how far away things are.

Bats can even use echolocation to tell the difference between objects and food - so they can avoid bashing into trees and hone in on a tasty insect instead :O)

Try it out for yourself - play the hungry bats game: 

 this nature resource for kids is a pdf documenthungry bats gamedownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websitehungry bats

 

pdf file  This is a pdf - you will need the latest free software to open it