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‘Superfast’ Muscles Help Bats Find Their Dinner

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As a hunting bat closes in on a flying insect, its echolocation calls get closer and closer together, and shorter and shorter in duration. The calls, more than 160 per second, give the bat rapid-fire information on the location of its ever-moving prey.

To the human ear, the calls register

Source: QUEST Physics

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