describe echolocation in bats.
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Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is the biological sonar used by several kinds of animals. Echolocating animals emit calls out to the environment and listen to the echoes of those calls that return from various objects near them. They use these echoes to locate and identify the objects. Echolocation is used for navigation and for foraging (or hunting) in various environments.
Echolocating animals include some mammals and a few birds; most notably microchiropteran bats and odontocetes(toothed whales and dolphins), but also in simpler form in other groups such as shrews, one genus of megachiropteran bats
Echolocating animals include some mammals and a few birds; most notably microchiropteran bats and odontocetes(toothed whales and dolphins), but also in simpler form in other groups such as shrews, one genus of megachiropteran bats
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Recent molecular phylogenies have changed our perspective on the evolution of echolocation in bats. These phylogenies suggest that certain bats with sophisticated echolocation (eg horseshoe bats) share a common ancestry with non-echolocating bats
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