How do bats detect their prey?

Question

How do bats detect their prey?

Answer 1

yea they do they smell them cuz they cant see

Answer 2

sonar waves

Answer 3

By echolocation.  Here is a good site that explains it:

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals...

Also, bats are not blind..they can actually see quite well.

Answer 4

Some bats eat insects and some bats eat fruit.

Fruit bats go by sense of smell and vision.

Insect eating bats have very good hearing. They listen for their prey and hunt by using echo location.

Answer 5

they use echo location

Answer 6

Echolocation.they send out noises that bounce off of solid objects, The bat can make something like an image by the time it takes for the sound waves to come back. Its the same principle as sonar

Answer 7

bats are tricky animals, because they are nocturnal, and have extremely poor eyesight.

the secret to bats detecting their prey is called echolocation. it can be described as a kind of "radar" that the bats use to "see" sound. they sound out a high pitch frequency to their surroundings, and they capture the sound that bounces back to them with their nose and ears, creating a "picture" of what their surroundings look like.

bats are not the only animals that use echolocation. Echolocation is also used frequently by whales, especially dolphins, for detecting prey in water that is dark and difficult to see in.

hope that helps!

Answer 8

They use a tool called echolocation, others may call it "seeing with ears" the push out sound from thier ears and if the soound hits an insect or a tree, the sound will bounce back and tell the bat that there is an insect or a tree there.